Text book of Punjab agriculture
Full details
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Civil and Military Gazette Ltd. |
| Year of publication | 1947 |
| Languages | English (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | |
| Tags | |
| Scope & content | Contains information on a wide range of agricultural industries, including Persian wheels and cane sugar crushing |
Copies held
Accession no. 229325
- Shelf location: D100-SIN
- Donor: Keith Sutherland
- Notes: Signed by R. R. Hiles Oct/Nov 1948, inscribed 'to Bombay Club, Marine Drive, Bombay' (now the Intercontinental Hotel stands on its site);
Divisions within this publication
- 1: General features of the province
- 2: Agricultural statistics
- 3: Physiology of plants
- 4: Chemistry of the soil
- 5: Physical nature of the soil and cultivation
- 6: Agricultural implements and machinery
- 7: Fallowing, rotation and manuring
- 8: Irrigation
- 9: Capital required for farming and returns
- 10: Weeds
- 11: Foodgrains - Cereals
- 12: Wheat
- 13: Barley
- 14: Rice
- 15: Maize, Juar and Bajra
- 16: Inferior millets
- 17: Foodgrains - Pulses
- 18: Other Food Crops - Sugarcane
- 19: Other Food Crops - Fruits & vegetables
- 20: Oilseeds
- 21: Fibre crops - Cotton, San-Hemp and Sankukra
- 22: Fodder crops
- 23: Miscellaneous crops - Tobacco, Indigo, Tea, Mehndi, Mushrooms, Poppy, Indian Hemps, Tung
- 24: General Observations
- 25: Allied industries
- 26: Glossary of vernacular terms