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The Agricultural Journal of India July 1907

1907

Besides ea very full muster of these Departments the Board included the Inspector-General of the Civil Veterinary Department the Director of the Botanical Survey the Agrcultural Chemist to the Government of Mysore the Scientific Officer to the Indian Tea Association and the Directors of Agriculture of Baroda and Kashmir. [...] In attempting to give a brief review of the salient features of the year's work as they can be gleaned from the Proceedings of the Board of 1907 * it is necessary first to make some reference to the organization of the Agricultural Departments in India and the. [...] To combat this a large campaign was undertaken in the Punjab the chief means adopted being the re-introduction of the natural enemy of the boll-worm a parasite which there is reason to believe was killed out by the severe cold of the winter of 1905-06 the burning of stalks and refuse of the cotton plant in the fields after the completion of the cotton picking season and the planting of teap [...] The question of legislation for the control of artificial fertilizers brought before the Board of 1906 was again considered ; the Board decided from the evidence collected in the meantime that the time is not ripe for the introduction of such legislation though it is desirable to maintain a special watch over the develogments which may occur in the future in this direction. [...] There 'has been the greatest confusion in the past and in 1903 when swarms of the Bombay Locust were flying south to the Ghats swarms of the North-West Locust flew over from Kathiawar to Surat crossing the path of the former and passed on eastArds into India giving rise to the belief that the locusts were moving east.
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Frontmatter
i-iii Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa view
The Oudh Seed-Depots
217-223 W.H. Moreland view
The Third Annual Meeting of the Board of Agriculture
224-239 E.J. Butler view
Locusts in India
240-245 H.M. Lefroy view
Steam Thrashing in India
246-251 E.Shearer view
The Montgomery and Sind Breeds of Cattle
252-vi J.Mollison, I.French view
Proposed Grass-Land Experiments in India
257-260 J.Mollison view
Cattle Manure
261-269 D.Clouston view
The Prevention of Fodder Famines in the Chitaldrug District in Mysore
270-272 B.Ramaswami Iyer view
The Cultivation of Para Rubber in North-East India
273-276 H.H. Mann view
The Tapping of Assam Rubber (Ficuselastica)
277-279 H.H. Mann view
The Food of the Mynah
280-282 C.W. Mason view
The Pests of Introduced Cottons
283-285 H.M. Lefson view
Notes
286-300 unknown view
Literature
301-321 unknown view
Notice
i-ii unknown view

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