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Indian Farming August 1942

1942

SCIENCE A Monthly Journal of Science devoted to a survey of. the developments in the fields of Pure and Applied Sciences Published with the Editorial Co-operation of Prominent Scientists in India CONTENTS Editorial Articles--Science in relation to public affairs. [...] Mr Kanitkar was born in 1887 and in 1909 obtained the Degree of Bachelor of Agriculture of the Bombay University in the first group of students from the Poona College of Agriculture to obtain that newly created degree. [...] in 1909 he joined the Bombay Agricultural Deparment in the Chemistry Section as a Junior Laboratory Assistant to Dr H. H. Mann who was then the Agricultural Chemist to the Government of Bombay and Principal of the Poona College of Agriculture. [...] The subsidising of dry farming research by le Imperial Council of Agricultural Research permitted of the opening of dry farming research stations at Sholapur and Bijapur in the Bombay Presidency—the first in an area of compartively shallow soil and the second in an area of deep black cotton soil—in both of which valuable and interesting work has been carried out under Mr Sanitkar's direct guida [...] The numbers of cattle remain high : there has been some fall in the number of sheep pigs and poultry though it will not be difficult to restore these after the war ; pigs and poultry in particular multiply very rapidly and the popular sheep of today are the prolific Border-Leicesters which are usually crossed with a Southdown ram or an Oxford or Hampshiredown to give the type of lamb wanted for
agriculture environment
Pages
73
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
Food Production Front
413-414 unknown view
N. V. Kanitkar M.Ag. B.Sc. An Appreciation
414-415 unknown view
Britain’s Wartime Food Production Drive
416-420 John Russell view
Giant Star Grass
421-ii B. Sen view
Improved Sugarcane Varieties in India
425-427 D.G Walawalkar view
Improvement of Grazing Grounds in Assam
428-429 R.C. Woodford view
Indigenous Breeds of Horses and Donkeys in India
430-437 H.B. Shani view
Worms and Animal Diseases
438-440 G.D. Bhalerao view
What the Scientists are doing
441-443 unknown view
What would You Like to Know ?
444-445 unknown view
What’s doing in All-India
446-452 unknown view
The Month’s Clip
453-456 unknown view
New Books and Reviews
457-i unknown view
From all Quarters
459-460 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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