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Indian Farming June 1945

1945

The number in both cases in relation to the head of livestock in India and the number of people in India to whom the breeding of cattle is of paramount interest is indeed small but keeping in mind the main objects of the show i.e. [...] The salt dissolves in the water coming out of the hide and the saturated brine so produced permeates through the pile and the internal layers of the hides are coated with the salt. [...] The disease eats into the trees slowly but surely the first symptoms of it appearing in the variegation and yellowing of leaves indicating shortage of chlorophyll matter followed by the diminution of leaf size and the struggle of the affected trees shown by the springing up of dormant buds into activity giving out stunted multiple sprouts on the lower parts of the tree causing the starvation a [...] Frequent harrowing of the intespace between tree lines stirring and mulcing of the surface soil shallow digging in the basins of trees and the cultivation of the land in general are bound to contribute substantially towards the best health of citrus trees. [...] In spite of the sharp increase in the use of commercial fertilizers the continued withdrawing of nutrients is not compensated so that a further doubling of the use of commercial fertilizers is in the interest of maintaining the productivity of the soils.
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii H. K. Sen view
Frontmatter
i-242 H. K. Sen view
Show Judging
243-245 H. K. Sen view
Curing of Hides and Skins
246-249 B. M. Das view
The Die-Back Disease of Citrus Trees
250-253 S. S. Bhat view
Butterfat
254-256 Noshir Dastur view
Long Staple Cotton in Sind
257-259 R. Sankaran view
Curing and Canning of Prawns
260-265 B. N. Chopra view
The Effect of some Nitrogenous Fertilizers on the Yield of Paddy
266-268 A. R. Khan, M. P. Bhatnagar view
Silage Making in the Village
269-272 Mason Vaugh view
What the Scientists are doing
273-273 H. K. Sen view
What would you Like to Know?
274-274 H. K. Sen view
What’s doing in All-India
275-280 H. K. Sen view
In other Lands
281-283 Leslie Wheeler view
The Month’s Clip
284-287 H. K. Sen view
French Foreign Policy
288-289 H. K. Sen view
Live-Stock Improvement in Relation to Heredity and Environment
289-289 H. K. Sen view
New Books Received
289-289 H. K. Sen view
From All Quarters
290-292 H. K. Sen view
Backmatter
i-ii H. K. Sen view

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