Department of Agriculture Mysore State. Report of Work on the Coffee Experiment Station Balehonnur for the Years 1930 and 1931

8 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MYSORE STATE REPORT OF WORK ON THE COFFEE EXPERIMENT STATION BALEHONNUR FOR THE YEARS 1930 AND 1931 BANGALORE: PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRESS 1932FOREWORD AS circumstances have delayed the issue of the Report of the Coffee Experiment Station for the year 1930 it has been thought advisable to publish a combined report for the years 1930 and 1931 thus bringing it as ne [...] In the first set of experiments we are testing the availability of nitrogen phosphoric acid and potash in mixtures ; variations of plant food ratios from the standard one of 2N 3P205 and 4K20 ; and the time of application of general manures. [...] The strength of sprays involves the investigation of the merit of full strength Bordeaux as against half strength and the time of application involving spraying twice in the year and only once in the year either before the monsoon or after the monsoon. [...] In an attempt to supplement the records of crop yield from the various spraying experiment blocks and also to study directly the effect of different sprays and different times of spraying a series of observtions have been carried out in September 1930 and 1931 and in the case of the time and strength of spray series also in February 1932. [...] The method employed was to take a number of branch systems of definite type and take counts of the number of growing points and the number of mature leaves.