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interculture as it produces a deeper tilth in the black cotton 

 soil. Turn wrest ploughs will, in future, be made in India 

 by Messrs. Burn & Co., Calcutta, and agents have arranged 

 to stock them at the various cotton centres. 



Much attention is being paid to experiments with the 

 different manures on this farm and the excellent crops that 

 clothe the fields are largely the result of high manuring. 



Most cultivators in this Division grudge to pay even 12 

 annas for a cart-load of cattle dung ; its manurial value for 

 cotton is at least twice that. The cultivator who neglects 

 to manure his land is a loser because by withholding one 

 small item of expenditure, namely, manure, he lessens very 

 considerably the effectiveness of the other items, viz., cost 

 of cultivation, seed and supervision. Increased outturns 

 have been obtained on the farm from the use of cattle dung, 

 poudrette and saltpetre as manures for cotton and juar. 

 The most economical of these is poudrette which is obtain- 

 able in fairly large quantities from all the large towns in 

 Berar. A source of manure which is neglected all over 

 India at present is cattle urine when conserved by the dry 

 earth system. It has been proved at Akola that, for cotton 

 and juar, the manurial value of a farm animal's urine is 

 equal to that of its dung and by conserving the liquid 

 manure, the value of the manure available on a farm can be 

 doubled. 



Nitrogenous fertilizers, such as nitrate of soda and 

 saltpetre, when used as a top-dressing after the application 

 of cattle dung, have also given very good results. It will 

 pay to use them as a manure for cotton to supplement the 

 inadequate supply of cattle dung so long as the price of 

 that staple remains high. 



The quantity of lint yielded by each variety varies from 

 36| seers per acre for hani to 80^ seers for rosea. As the 

 value of a cotton depends very largely on the quantity of 

 lint which it gives, rosea stands easily first and hani is dis- 

 tinctly the poorest yielder. The advantage to be gained by 

 growing rosea in preference to Berar jari is that it gives 



