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Indian Farming January 1947

1947

It was the importation of shoddy as much as the competition suffered from the mills and the change of fashion that confined the hanloom weavers to the production of kamblis and thus reduced their activities to the supply of the coarsest; cheapest articles but with the outbreak of war there was still left about one lakh of handlooms to turn to the production of blankets and other woollen materi [...] The diameter of some of the Indian wools as shown in the Hand Book of Indian Wools (Agriculture Marketing in India.) does not really depict the true picture as notwithstanding the comparatively very small number of samples analysed the figures aro not representative of the type and class of wool produced in different areas and the country. [...] The wool quality of the progeny was tested at the first clip in the case of female lambs and at the second clip in the case of male lambs. [...] In the meantime the British Government having lost access to the principal sources of supply of flax in the Bathe States and North Western Europe had asked the Commonwealth Government to increase the acreage of flax for the purpose of supplying British requirments. [...] a consderable amount of work has been done in connection with the time of sowing the rate of sowing preparation of the land harvesting of the crop rate of application of fertilizers ' and many other factors associated with the growing of flax.
agriculture environment
Pages
67
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Wool—Home Production To Meet Home Requirements
1-i unknown view
Sir Jogendra Singh
3-3 unknown view
Improvement of Quantity and Quality of Wool in India
4-7 P.N. Nanda view
The Commercial Dairy Cow
8-i T.W. Millen view
Flax Production In Australia
11-13 J.A. Stevenson view
A. Method of Improving India’s Wool Production
14-18 Ram Haksar view
Johne’s Disease In Cattle
19-21 G.L. Sharma view
Mango Propagation Methods at Fruit Research Station Kodur
22-25 K.C. Naik view
Baroda Wool-Grading and Marketing Experiment
26-i N.L. Narayan view
The Utilization of Water Hyacinth
29-30 E.F. Watson view
Scope for the Utilization of Human Urine as Manure
31-32 M.A. Idnani view
Labs and Fields
33-34 unknown view
You ask We answer
35-36 unknown view
What’s doing in all-India
37-42 unknown view
Developments In Artificial Insemination
43-48 Joseph Edwards view
How to Enlarge The Family Farm Business
49-53 Mason Vaugh view
Book Reviews
54-55 unknown view
News and Views
56-56 unknown view

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