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The Agricultural Journal of India April 1907

1907

The caterpillar hiber-. nates as a pupa in theta soilin any convenient spot near the.plant on which it lived ; N‘Then the crop is eut; the caterpillars are in hiding at the edgesa the field ; if the crop is simply cut and th% stumps allowed to ritinain in the soil ihibernatidn is easy ; but if the field is ploughed the margins kept.clean and no untidy or uncultivated borders tdremain the cat [...] The chief objection to the use of saltpetre is the large /ariation in the percentage of nitrogen in different samples arid a low percentage of nitrogen' means a higher percentage of other substances;hat are often noxious to the growth of the plant. [...] Alorrgside this a saying current amongst the Telugu people of Southern India may foalso be quoted " Better the gifts of the earth than the rewards of the powerful." Many similar sayingsmight be given to show the estimatiola in which the practic4 of agrictlture in both its branches is held amongst the people Of that part.of to whose wealth of lore on agricultural.'natters it is my object to [...] between the plots into which it is customary to divide the paddy fields ; thus it is said that the higher the field-ridge the more the paddy ; the more the paddy the richer the husbandman ; the. richer the h. rsbandnian the richer the country ; the richer the courary the Aronger the King." And this may be explained by a quotation f rom the Kcinchi-Puranciin to the effect thA " after the water [...] and of this system it 'is said that giving land on rhYr» is a cause of disgust the renter is aNitys a thief whilst " the dith of the cattle matters nothing to the tenant nor the death of the child to its step-mother.

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Frontmatter
i-iv Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa view
Insect Pests of Jute
109-115 H.M. Lefroy view
Artificial Fertilizers for Cotton in the Central Provinces
116-122 D. Clouston view
South Indian Agricultural Folklore
123-139 C. Benson view
Jute Experiments in Bengal
140-160 F. Smith view
The Trial of Exotic Drought-Resisting Plants in India
161-170 F.G. Sly view
Cotton Cultivation and Trade in Tide Central Provinces and Berar
171-i L.E.P. Gaskin view
The Selection of Sugarcane Cuttings
193-201 E.J. Butler view
Table Showing the Constitution of the Imperial and Provincial Departments of Agriculture in India
202-206 unknown view
Notes
207-213 unknown view
Literature
214-214 unknown view
Notice
215-215 unknown view

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