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The Agricultural Journal of India April 1924

1924

One end of this she wound round the narrow part of the leaf that separated one of the punctures from the edge ; having done this she carried the loose end of the strand across the under surface of the leaf to a puncture on the opposite side where she attached it to the leaf and thus drew the edges a little way together. [...] She then proceeded to connect most of the other punctures with those opposite to them so that the leaf took the form of a tunnel converging to a point.* The under surface of the leaf formed the roof and sides of the tunnel or arch. [...] When lining the nest the bird made a number of punctures in the leaf through which she poked the lining with her beak the object of this being to keep the lining in situ All this time the edges of the leaf that formed the nest had been held together by the thinnest strands of cobweb and it is a mystery how these can have stood the strain. [...] These statistics were not compiled by the village accountants who were at this period servants of the village and not of the State ; season by season the measurers and the writers appeared on the scene and if their emoluments were in part at least a charge on the peasants the burden must have been heavy."2 Though these methods were improved on by the British Government the principle of assess [...] The end of the financial year would be the best time for making such a census as it is both the time when the year for which exports are given confluences and also the time when the wheat stocks have reached their lowest and when therefore it would be easiest to take a census of their amount as then the great mass of wheat is in the maitdi and there is little left with the zei titlar.
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Frontmatter
i-vi The Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India view
Some Common Indian Birds. No. 27. The Tailor-Bird (Orthotomus Sutorius)
225-231 T. Fletcher, C.M. Inglis view
Wheat Forecasts in the Punjab
232-250 H.K. Trevaskis view
A Preliminary Account of the Investigation of Cotton Wilt in Central Provinces and Berar
251-i Jehangir Dastur view
Thirteenth Meeting of the Board of Agriculture in India
261-275 J.C. McDougall view
An Improved Method of Lucerne Cultivation II
276-279 Albert Howard view
The Sun-Dried Poona Fig
280-283 G.S. Cheema, S.R. Gandhi view
A Land Mortgage Bank
284-295 Richard Burn view
The Inheritance of the Number of Boll Loculi in Cotton
296-304 Sydney Harland view
The Irrigation of Sugarcane in Hawaii
305-315 C.A.B. view
Notes
316-332 unknown view
Personal Notes Appointments and Transfers Meetings and Conferences etc.
333-337 unknown view
Reviews
338-340 unknown view
New Books on Agriculture and Allied Subjects
341-341 unknown view
List of Agricultural Publications in India from the 1st August 1923 to the 31st January 1924
i-ix unknown view

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