Show LAYING PAPER OVER LAND ISAID IS ISAID ISAID AID TO YIELD Retains Moisture Pre Pre- Prevents Pre Prevents vents Baking and Kills Weeds HONOLULU Feb Laying 27 27 I paper poper over cultivated farm land landIs landis landIs Is one ono of ot the most Important dEs dEs- dis discoveries ever made In agriculture This process of ot yield Increase has haa been developed In the Ha- Ha HawaIIan Hawaiian Ha Hawaiian islands lalands Florida Fiorita and Call Cali California fornia Cornia It Is la increasing the tho yield of ot the food tood crops to which It has been applied from the nominal amount ot of 2 25 G per fler cent to the tho almost un- un unbelievable unbelievable un unbelievable believable la gain Of ot 8 16 per fler cent The crops grewn grown by this process Include su sugar r cane tomatoes cab cab- cabbage cabbage cabbage bage pineapples tobacco straw straw- strawberries strawberries berries all alt the bush berries and potatoes The Increase Is In size site of the IndivIdual vegetables and fruits In number of ot Individuals pro pro- produced produced pro produced per plant In plant growth and In value ot of crop products Product TIlE THE PURPOSE The principle back of th tho dis- dis discovery discovery dis discovery covery Is that a I miniature hot hot- hothouse hothouse hot hothouse house is erected by tho the paper paler around the base bale or ot each plant and that the roots of ot the plant are placed virtually In a a forcing bed The paper which Is ii continuous prevents the growth of ot weeds re- re retAIns retains re retains the heat beat and moisture In tn the earth prevents hardening hardening- and bakIng of ot tho the soil eliminates the necessity ot of o cultivation and per per- permIts permits per permits mits vegetables such II a potatoes turnips carrots and the like to grow virtually at the surface or of orthe the ground protected from the heat of the sun SUIl or the cold of ot the wind or rain by the tha paper The Tho discovery has enabled pine pIne- pIneapples pineapples pineapples apples tomatoes strawberries and other more ar less lesa delicate vege vege- vegetables vegetables tables and fruits to attan perfect development and protection at lower temperatures than those thole In which th their lr growth ever before has been een commercially lly profitAble profitable profitable-It It has opened thousands Of acres of ot hill bill and mountain laud laDd laDdIn laudin landIn In Hawaii to pineapple production production production tion and has even Increased the area available tor for the growing ot of sugar cane there PROTECTS PROTES PLANTS TS The paper shield between the earth and sun aun like the e asbestos packing in a a thermos bottle acts as a II protector against a too at- at ardent ar ardent dent sun as ns well as 83 against too chilling winds and rain rains The paper used Is la one made by treating felt with asphalt some some- somewhat somewhat what after the methods employed In making paper rooting roofing except that this paper Is mUCh thInner than roofing rooting paper though ot of as tIne fine or finer texture so as aa to offer full protection from rain dew and togs toga One layIng of the paper laper Is sat suf- sufficient suf sufficient tor for about five lve yeara years In pineapple fields slightly less n In sugar r cane fields s and some tome three years yeara In tomato ca cabbage and small amaH crop fields where the plant dIe at the end of eaCh crop sea sea- season season sea season son |