Parliamentary Papers, Volume 8

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Contents

Communications and Marketing
42
The Finance of Agriculture
47
Cooperation
51
The Village
56
Education
62
Rural Industries and Labour XV XVI
70
Horticulture and Plantations
73
Statistics
75
The Agricultural Services
79
Miscellaneous
87
Conclusion
89
15
94
25
102
35
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51
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PARA
xii
PARA PAGE
xiv
Statistics
xvi
PARA
12
Expenditure of the Imperial and provincial departments of agriculture 336
20
Gross area under food and nonfood crops in British India by fiveyear
69
Average yield in pounds per acre for all India including Indian States
76
РАВА PAGE 132 The use of experimental farms for demonstration work
149
Financial return from departmental farms
151
The demonstration plot
151
Guarantee against loss
152
Agricultural shows
153
Publications
154
Other forms of propaganda
157
The cooperative movement in relation to agricultural propaganda
158
The taluka development associations and divisional boards in Bombay
159
Applicability of the Bombay system to other provinces
161
Utility of the cooperative credit society in advancing agricul tural improvement
162
Appointment of an expert officer for propaganda work
163
Propaganda of other departments connected with rural welfare
164
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
165
CHAPTER VII
168
Distribution of sheep and goats
169
Early sheep breeding experiments
171
Reasons for past failures
172
Conditions necessary for success in sheep breeding
173
Goat breeding
175
Distribution of cattle in Indian provinces
176
Character of grazing lands in India
178
INDEX
179
Distribution of classes of cattle in Indian provinces
181
Influence of soils and crops on cattle distribution
184
Cattle population of India Holland and Egypt
188
Comparison of Lyallpur Punjab and Gharbieh Lower Egypt
189
Existence of a vicious circle in India
190
Deterioration of Indian cattle
191
Essential points in a policy of cattle improvement
192
Cattle breeding in Madras
193
a heavy item in the cost of production
196
Management of buffaloes
197
High quality of many Indian breeds
198
difficulties facing the cultivator
199
Suggestions for improvement in cattle feeding
201
Necessity for improvement of existing grazing resources
203
Dry fodder storage
205
Great possibilities of silage
206
The Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
211
215
255
225
266
233
275
Agency of distribution
337
Other sources
344
Organisation of irrigation research
350
Irrigation in Sind 290 i Problems and possibilities
354
ii The principles to be adopted in disposing of govern ment land
356
The position in Bengal
358
Irrigation in the NorthWest Frontier Province
361
Irrigation in Baluchistan
362
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
364
Necessity for a central station for irrigation research
365
CHAPTER XI
367
A comparison with other countries 301 The present position
370
The development of motor transport
372
The Road Development Committee
373
The finance of road development
374
Necessity for a qualified district board engineering staff
375
Interference of roads with drainage lines
376
a policy of coordination
377
The development of fruit and milk traffic
378
The transport of cattle
379
Other forms of transport
380
Post and telegraph offices
381
Marketing some general consideration
382
Descriptive
384
Absence of information in regard to marketing conditions
385
The marketing of jute in Bengal
386
The marketing of rice in Burma
387
Indebtedness in relation to the use of markets
388
The Berar market system and the Bombay market legislation
389
The restriction of regulated markets to cotton
390
The necessity for special legislation
391
Optional establishment of markets
392
The constitution of the market committee and other details of management
393
Prohibition of brokers from acting in a dual capacity
395
Standardisation of weights and measures
397
Reputation of Indian agricultural products in the worlds markets
398
Remedies for unsatisfactory quality
401
Destination of exports from India of rice wheat raw cotton and raw jute
402
Cooperative sale
403
Grain elevators
404
MISCELLANEOUS
407
570
447
XVIII
503
Number of births and deaths registered in British India
512
Scope of the chapter
513
Death rate per 1000 of the population in rural and urban areas
516
Miscellaneous
558
Conclusion
559
Area under cultivation in British India 190809 to 192526
604
INDEX
604
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15
619
28
624
35
625
47
656
572
659
578
666
581
672
56
686
75
687
125
688
III
696
87
697
VI
704
89
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