MULCHING PAPER
INCREASES CROP PRODUCTION. Increasing crop production 25 to 50 per cent, by means of covering the ground between the rows with strips a heavy paper has proved so successful that it may become into general use for the growing of some standard crops. Mulching paper, as it is called, is being experimented with this year in growing cotton in semlarid localities of Texas. While tho cost of the paper is high for a crop of this kind, an expenditure of £6 an acre being required, it is believed by agricultural experts that it will more than double the yeld of tho staple. Mulshing paper is already in such great demand in the Hawaiian Islands where it was first introduced, and in California and Florida, that it is now manufactured especially for farm use. It comes to tho farmers in largo rolls. Tho width ranges from eighteen to thirty-six inches. Tho thirty-inch width is used more than any other. Some of the hardier crops are covered with tho paper and the plants burst through it. Tho thirty-inch paper weighs 4.95 pounds a 100 square feet. This paper was devised primarily for tho sugar plantations of Hawaii.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 239, 27 September 1930, Page 12
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197MULCHING PAPER Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 239, 27 September 1930, Page 12
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