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The Agricultural Journal of India

1914

The use in these lands of the rallaora " the cracks caused by which are said to expand as the soil dries out in the early months of the year serves the double purpose of deeper aeration and of making the work of the heavy plough easier when the time comes for its use. [...] Like most assemblies of the kind the formal sessions were of less value than the opportunity afforded to the delegates of learning something of the actual agriculture of the country Id of discussing their problems together outside the Cogress. [...] This Commission may adopt the following limits : (a) nature of the soil in which the experiments are made ; (b) comparative study of the systems of irrigation employed the depth of the layer of water and its composition∎ abrupt changes of teperature and mean temperature during the different phases of vegetation rapidity of flow of the water etc. [...] (4) It is adviable to eestablisli in each rice-producing zone a meteorological station charged with the study of the influence of different meteorphenomena phenomena on the development of certain diseases if rice." To the sixth Section was assigned the consideration of the world's commerce in rice and the advantage of interational regultion to guarantee the authenticity of marks and.or [...] The incidence of cestivo-autumnal fever amongst rice cultivators was therefore heavy in the earlier days of the spread of the crop and the prejudice thus caused has interfered' with the recognititn of the fact familiar to medical men that the ultimate effect of this cultivation has been the amelioration of large areas in so far as Vhitt.type of malaria is concerned.
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Methods of Economising Water Used in Irrigation in America
317-325 M. Nethersole view
The Cultivation of Rice in Spain and the Recent International Rice Congress at Valencia
326-348 E.J. Butler view
Notes on the Fodder Problem in India
349-355 J. Mackenna view
The Use of Fish as Cattle Food
356-361 R. Wood view
Opuntia Elatior Mill. the Prickly Pear of the Bombay Presidency
362-365 W. Burns view
Turn
366-383 C.M. Utchinson view
Investigations on Papaya
384-388 L.B. Kulkarni view
Notes
389-396 unknown view
Reviews
397-401 unknown view
List of Agricultural Publications in India from 1ST February to 31st July 1914
i-vi unknown view

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