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The Agricultural Journal of India

1914

These are due to a variety of causes the chief among which are proximity of big markets the quality of the cane and the skill of the manufacturer. [...] Such a rate is distinctly to the advantage of the cultivator ; since he not only obtains the advance which is essential to his system of cultivation and the prospect of which is one of the main attractions of cangrowing but he is saved the expense of crushing his cane. [...] The district though in the Meerut division is a cotton rather than a cane-growing one and the varieties of cane grown are inferior to those of the rest of the division and prices of gur lower. [...] In the ripeping process of the cane it is probable that the reducingtugats awe first formed from complex carbohydrates which are initialiy form;d by the agency of the plant from the carbonic238 AGRICUIATURAt SOURNAL Oir INDIA [IX acid of the air. [...] A continuation of these experiments is being made as it is obvious from consideration of the few facts given in this brief paper that the salt content of a sugar-cane juice is of the highest importance for as mentioned above the amount of salts in the juice is said to influence the amount of saccharose at maturity and certainly has a great effect on the amount of sugar that will cirtallise out.
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Prices of Gur and Cane in the United Provinces
217-226 H.R.C. Hailey view
Some Aspects of the Danish Dairy Industry
227-235 H.E. Annett view
Some Observations on the Potash Content of Sugar-Cane Juice
236-246 C.Somers Taylor view
The Seed Supply of the new Pusa Wheats
247-253 Albert Howard, Gabrielle Howard view
Silk Weaving Industry of Amarapura
254-287 K.D. Shroff view
The Strawberry Cultivation of Mahablesityar
288-294 W.Burns view
Subsoil Drainage in Paddy Lands
295-298 R.Cecil Wood view
The Nagpur Co—Operative Dairy
299-306 D.Clouwton view
Notes
307-311 unknown view
Reviews
312-316 H.L. Coghlan, J. W. Hinchley view

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