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The Agricultural Journal of India November 1927

1927

In the single district of Ferozepore the average holding is eight acres in the riverain country of the Sutlej and 92 on the borders of Bikaner' This is because in the one there is plenty of water while in the other everything 1 Pasilka Aaseeimtent Report 1914 p. 10. [...] But once it is available other important factors come into play the fertility of the soil the system of farming the supply of capital the accessibility of markets the habits and customs of the people and last but certainly not least the local standard of living. [...] In Sicily the people are better off along the )ast where the vine the orange and the lemon are grown than in the interior where le ordinary rotation is a year of wheat followed by a year of pasture and a year of snow. [...] It is one cause of the poverty of the south that the lack of water—as in the Punjab drought is the enemy—is a serious obstacle to the spread of intensive cultivation. [...] Even round Rome the vegetable radius is not more than -10 or 12 miles and so marked is the contrast between the neighbourhood of a town and the open country that to the traveller the sudden appearance of the market-garden is as sure a sign of the approach of a town as it is in the Punjab.
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Frontmatter
i-xvi The Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India view
The Economic Holding or the Family Farm
399-410 M.L. Darling view
The Acclimatization of Imported Stock
411-ix J.T. Edwards view
Agricultural Implements Suitable for the use of the Indian Cultivator
425-436 A.P. Cliff view
Fencing with Stone Walls as a Remedy Against Damage by Wild Pigs
437-441 S.S. Salimath view
A Method of Crowing Normal Plants of Cotton for Observation and the Behaviour of Broach Cotton under these Conditions at Surat
442-445 R.S. Kasargode view
Recent Progress In Cotton-Growing in India
446-454 B.C. Burt view
Behind the Divining Rod
455-458 Hugh Mill view
Notes
459-467 unknown view
Personal Notes Appointments and Transfers Meetings and Conferences Etc
468-468 unknown view
Review
469-478 unknown view
Publications of the Imperial Department of Agriculture in India
i-iv unknown view

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