Department of Agriculture Bombay. Leaflet No. 2 of 1909 to Leaflet No. 14 of 1927

The Silo should be open in April and as much of the silage as may be required for ono day removed once a day. The appearance of the silage (that is the grass which was originally filled into the Silo) will be darkish in colour and have a peculiar smell as though it were decaying but it is only necessary to put this in front of the bullocks to see how readily they eat it. [...] The main feature of the Poona furnace is the ash-pit (A) and the draft passage (B) which opens out on one side of the pit. [...] The results of tests made by the cultivators in the Sitira District under the supervision of the Agricultural Department show that to boil 36 000 lbs. [...] In the case of high crops when the above may damage the crop then the frame described is not used and the mouth of the bac is simply kept open by means of two' pieces of wood or bamboo two feet long at the sides as shown in the figure below and is then drawn over the field by two men.with cords.3 Thus the principal things to do to destroy the grass-hopper pest are 1. To plough up the fields [...] It is so small that its Stem cannot be seen without the aid of a microscope and the only part of it we see is the spores that ripen in the place where the grains of the cereal crops ought to appear.