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The Agricultural Journal of India July 1924

1924

These strips are prepared by the bird itself which seizes a leaf in its beak and makes a notch at the edge near the base of the leaf ; it then grips with its beak the edge of the leaf above the notch and jerks its head away so as to tear off a strip along the edge of the leaf ; by flying off with the end of this strip in its beak the strip is usually pulled off along the length of the leaf ; but [...] Up to this point in the construction of the nest both sexes have done the same kind of work in collecting fibre-strips and weaving these into the nest but 'when this loop has been completed the female bird takes up her position on it leaving the cock henceforth to procure more material for building and to work from the outside of the nest whilst she works from the inside both of them pushing [...] For the un-irrigated cotton area the contrary is the case the area sown being almost directly determined by the nature of GI monsoon prior to the middle of July the correlation factor between rainfall prior to 15th July and the cotton area being 0.62 (f 0.11). [...] The irony of the situation lies in the fact that it is largely the development of cotton spinning with modern machinery in the East which has led to the replacement of long by short staple cottons. [...] The work of the Agricultural Departments has already added enormously to the profits of the cotton-grower and if the problems which await soltion before a further advance can be made demand time and patience we can go forward with the knowledge that the scientific results achieved can undo.ubtedly be given effect to in the general cotton cultivation of the country through the organization whi
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Frontmatter
i-xviii The Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India view
Some Common Indtan Birds No. 28: The Weaver-Bird or Baya (Ploceus Philippinus)
351-355 T. Fletcher, C.M. Inglip view
Future Development of Cotton-Growing in India
356-i B.C. Burt view
The Jamshedpur Activated Sludge Sewage Disposal Works
369-377 F.C. Temple, V.N. Sarangdhar view
Note on Diseases of Sheep
378-384 R. Branford view
Mill Trials of Coimbatore Sugarcane Seedlings 232 and 233
385-388 Wynne Sayer view
Notes on Maintenance Rations
389-401 G.P. Goffi view
The Fruit Moth Problem in the Northern Circars
402-404 P. Susainathan view
The Teaching of Agriculture
405-414 A. Hall view
Kikuyu Grass (Pennisetum Clandestinum Chiov)
415-425 O. Stapf view
The Measurable Characters of Raw Cotton
426-432 Gladys Clegg, Sydney Harland view
Notes
433-444 unknown view
Personal-Notes Appointments and Transfers Meetings and Conferences Etc
445-450 unknown view
Reviews
451-454 unknown view
Ublcations of The Imperial Department of Agriculture in India
i-viii unknown view

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