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THE letters on the above subject in NATURE of February 17 and March 3 and 10 are of much interest. In many parts of the world artificial heating of the soil is a regular practice. For example, in the rice districts of heavy rainfall in the Bombay Presidency the seed-bed for transplanted rice and some small millets is almost invariably subjected to a process known in the vernacular as “rab.” This consists of spreading a layer of branches, grass, cow-dung, &c., over the surface of the plot (often only a few metres square) selected as the site of the seed-bed. This material is then slowly burnt before the breaking of the monsoon.
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FLETCHER, F. The Fertilising Influence of Sunlight. Nature 83, 156–157 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083156b0
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