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Indian Farming July 1943

1943

By adopting the practice of mixing on a wide scale it is possible to increase the availability of the existing supplies of wheat by at least 15 per cent and at the same time to lower somewhat the cost of the product without detriment to the quality of the bread prepared from it. [...] In view of these findings the desirability might well be considered at a time when the supply of pure wheat is unequal to the demand of adopting the practice of mixing to a much greater extent than at present and even if necessary of making compulsory the mixing of one or other of these grains according to which is available with wheat in all cases where the manufacture of flour in mills or [...] In the course of my inspection of fishery tanks it has been repeatedly brought to the notice of the owners that the failure of their fishery crop has to be attributed very largely to the presence of predatory fishes in their tanks ; the keeping of the two types of fishes together is like attempting to rear a flock of lambs along with wolves. [...] The higher the quality score the better the loaf and the quality of the parent material. [...] a maund) of wheat-bajra mixture more chapatis can be prepared than chapatis of equal weight from the same unit weight of pure wheat ata ; and obvously the greater the proportion of bajra in the mixture the greater the number of chapatis that can be prepared from such mixtures which is a decided advantage from the point of view of the commercial baker.
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii F.M. De Mello view
Frontmatter
v-334 F.M. De Mello view
Wheat Production and Utilization
335-336 F.M. De Mello view
Eradication of Predatory Fishes from Tanks
337-338 Pheroze M. Kharegat view
A Simple Fodder-Cutter for Villages
339-339 Y.M. Parnerkar view
Optimum Proportions of Grains With Wheat
340-345 Ram Singh, S. Rattan Singh, Mohammad Rafiq view
Micro-Organisms in the Chemical Industry
346-348 N.B. Das view
Surface Cutworms in Kashmir
349-i M.R. Fotidar, J.L. Raina view
Grading Cattle in the Anamalai Hills
351-352 R.W. Littlewood view
Farm Production of Sugarcane Syrup
353-354 S.R. Swarup view
Tuberculosis and the Urban Milk Supply
355-357 P.R. Lyer view
Sugarcane and Wheat in One Year
358-361 Harbans Singh, Khushi, Hardial Singh view
Pox in Farm Animals
362-363 J.A. Idnani view
What the Scientists are doing
364-365 F.M. De Mello view
What would you like to know?
366-367 F.M. De Mello view
What’s doing in all-India
368-376 F.M. De Mello view
The Month’s Clip
377-381 F.M. De Mello view
Economic Problems of Modern India
382-382 Radhakamal Mukerjee, H.L. Dey view
From all Quarters
383-i F.M. De Mello view
Backmatter
i-ii F.M. De Mello view

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