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The Agricultural Journal of India April 1919

1919

THE following paper was read by the Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India in the absence of the writer at the recent meeting of the Indian Science Congress at Bombay. [...] England but the latter in most cases know how to remedy the defect by complete manuring and many do so in full knowledge of the fact that the apparent falling aff in the normal condition of the"NITROGENOUS FERTILIZERS : THEIR USE IN INDIA 205 plant is due to the unwonted drain upon the mineral resources of the soil as a consequence of the greater growth induced by the nitrogenous stimulant. [...] In England coplete drainage and cultivation are the foundations of successful farming ; in India although the same operations will generally result in an increase of crop and of apparent fertility yet the ultimate result may easily be depreciation in the condition of the soil due to over-rapid formation of nitrates and their loss in drainage water and to the rapid decrease in the content of or [...] After pointing out how insects have anticipated the most recent developments of the camouflage principle and other so-called modern inventions such as the process of paper-making from wood-pulp he touched lightly on the subject of the control of crop-pests and pointed out the importance of an accumulation of exact records of occurrence to enable outbreaks of pests to be forecasted in the future [...] A dicussion on the means of improvement of bee-keeping in India led to the passing of a resolution that in view of the danger of the introduction into India of bee-diseases by the unrestricted importtion of bees beeswax and honey such importation should only be permitted under necessary restrictions.
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Frontmatter
i-xiv The Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India view
Nitrogenous Fertilizers: Their Use in India
203-214 C. M. Hutchinson view
Nitrogen Fixation in Indian Soils
215-219 C. M. Hutchinson view
The True Sphere of Central Co-Operative Banks
220-225 B. Collins view
Sectional Meetings of the Board of Agriculture in India
226-244 unknown view
“Water Saving” Experiments
245-255 O. T. Faulkner view
School Gardens
256-264 S. H. Fremantle view
Dairy Industry Around Coimbatore
265-274 D. Rao view
The Seasonal Factor in Crop Statistics A Method of Correcting for the Inherent Pessimism of the Farmer
275-280 G. A. D. Stuart view
The Need and Objects of a Soil Survey in the Punjab
281-290 B. H. Wilsdon view
Some Agricultural Aspects of the Hosur Remount Depot
291-294 R. Wood view
Government Cattle Farm Hissar
295-299 John Farmer view
“Northerns” Cotton
300-314 G. R. Hilson view
The Improvement of “Tinnevellies” Cotton
315-330 Roger Thomas view
The Consolidation of Agricultural Holdings in the United Provinces
331-349 H. Jevons view
Notes
350-363 unknown view
Reviews
364-369 unknown view
New Books
370-372 unknown view
List of Agricultural Publications in India from 1st August 1918 to 31St January 1919
373-380 unknown view
Publications of the Imperial Department of Agriculture in India
381-384 unknown view
Backmatter
i-viii unknown view

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