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Department of Agriculture Bengal. Year 1907. No. 1. Departmental Records. Experiments with Aman Paddy

1907

Cowdung was spread in the second week of June castor cake and bonemeal in the third week of June and saltpetre was applied as a top-dressing three or four weeks after transplanting when the water had gone below the surface of the land. [...] An application of 30 seers of saltpetre as a top-dressing in addition to the 3 mounds of bonemeal gives an increased yield over the bonemeal of fif maunds of grain and 13* maunds of straw—an increase that repays many times over the cost of the !the maund of saltpetre. [...] For the past three years these two implements have been compared in the preparation of the paddy transplanting bed and the results arr in favour of the local plough.[ 11 (2) Sowing experiments— (a) Quantity of seed in broadcast cultivation. [...] Jute was sown in the beginning of May and harvested in the beginning of August while the paddy was transplanted in the third week of August and harvested in"I 13 J December. [...] Cowdung at the rate of 5 tons (= about 135 mantas) per acre was applied to the land before the last ploughing in the preparation of the jute seed bed and the paddy crop received no manure.
agriculture environment
Pages
33
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141950
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i F Smith view
Experiments with Aman Paddy at the Bengal Agricultural Stations
1-32 unknown view

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