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Indian Farming March 1943

1943

The most obvious loss is of course the death of the calf; and this is a matter of grave concern to the stock-roarer and to the dairy farmer who by methods of selective breeding is building up a herd of prime milkers. [...] According to Mackenzie Taylor with the completion of the Kalabagh weir on the Indus the whole of the available supplies of water in the Punjab rivers will be used for irrigation. [...] Now the retention of this water over the land for a period of six weeks permits of the thorough saturation of the subsoil in places where the subsoil is of proper consistency ; and this water can be drawn on in winter and summer for maturing certain crops and growing others... [...] The graphs show the extent to which the area sown and the success or failure of the rabi crops are decided by the nature of the rainfall in September. [...] The failure of the September rains (1 in.) however resulted not only in the failure of 32.4 per cent of this sown area but also in a reduction in the acreage of the following rabi crop i.e.
agriculture environment
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-118 unknown view
Contagious Abortion of Cattle
119-120 unknown view
Wasted Water and Wasted Land
121-127 C.H. Parr view
Possibilities for the Thoroughbred Horse in India
128-129 T.J. Egan view
Some Plants Poisonous to Livestock
130-131 Narain Kehar view
Sugarcane in Bengal
132-133 S.N. Chatterji view
The Wooden Wet Land Puddler
134-134 Manepalli Reddy view
The Red Hairy Caterpillar and its Control
135-138 Hem Pruthi, Mohan Bebraw view
Hints on Fish Culture in Inland Waters
139-140 Sunder Hora view
The Tampan Ticks of Marwar
141-142 B.B. Joshi view
Refrigeration of Multivoltine Silkworm Eggs
143-145 L. Murthy view
The Kathiawar Cultivator
146-148 D.G. Kelkar view
What the Scientists are doing
149-150 unknown view
What would you Like to Know ?
151-152 unknown view
What’s Doing in All-India
153-158 unknown view
The Month’s Clip
159-163 unknown view
New Books and Reviews
164-164 unknown view
From All Quarters
165-166 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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