Indian Farming  March 1943

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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.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
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

Indian Farming March 1943

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