Download or read book The Banana in Hawaii (Classic Reprint) written by James Edgar Higgins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Banana in Hawaii If the land has, been occupied by forest it is best to clear this away completely. Bananas do not require shade, as eof fee, and trees are simply in the way and use up food which Should go to the crop. To do this will require some expense at the beginning, but incomplete clearing is a doubtful econ omy and can only be regarded as a compromise to be made when capital is lacking. A cleared field means: Ist, Cheaper tillage; 2nd, Better tillage; grd, Larger crops of high-grade fruit; 4th, Greater facility in handling the crop. Thorough deep plowing and harrowing should' follow. There are very few, if any, banana soils in these islands that do not require plowing before setting the plants, and most of our soils would be benefited by being twice plowed. If the plantation is to be upon old land, plowing will be still more necessary. The advantages of plowing and tillage in general are many, not the least important of which is the setting up of nitrification and other chemical processes which set free plant food for the crop. Again the banana roots go where there is a loose and inviting soil. If such a soil be prepared for them at a, considerable depth, the result will be deeper rooting and fewer losses from wind. If it be so prepared all over the field and not simply in a small hole for each plant, the fur ther result will be a much larger root system, still more se curity from wind and more feeding space for roots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.