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seed was scattered broadcast on the surface and after the 

 whole area was ploughed once, the beam was run over the 

 land both ways. Besides the saving in cattle power, this 

 method of combined tilth production and seed covering, by 

 means of the iron plough, involves the minimum loss of 

 moisture. Afterwards, rain crusts were broken by the 

 harrow seven times, the last operation taking place on 

 April 15th, 1919. Side by side, about three acres of 

 similar land which was only roughly levelled and which 

 had not borne a clover crop were treated in the same way. 

 The yield in this case was much lower — 19 mds. 31 seers 

 (1,625 lb.) of grain and 33 mds. 15 seers (2,745 lb.) of straw 

 to the acre. 



In 1916, a beginning was made in the application of 

 the methods worked out at Quetta to the conditions of 

 North-West India. The first results were obtained in 1917 

 on the estates of Rai Bahadur Ganga Ram, CLE., M.V.O., 

 and Rai Bahadur Sewak Ram at Gangapur and Haripur 

 in the Lyallpur District and at the seed farm at Sargodha 

 in the Jhelum Colony. The preliminary irrigation gave 

 nearly ten maunds of wheat to the acre, one additional 

 watering after sowing yielded a little over sixteen while 

 three irrigations reduced the yield appreciably. At 

 Mirpurkhas in Sind, where the texture of the soil is finer 

 than that of the Canal Colonies of the Punjab, Main 1 

 obtained still better results. After a deeply cultivated hot 

 weather fallow and a double irrigation in the latter half of 

 October, pissi wheat on stiff working soils gave over 19 mds. 

 (1,533 lb.) to the acre. On similar land which received in 

 addition one irrigation in January the yield was 23f mds. 

 (1,894 lb.) per acre. Under the local Sindhi methods, four 

 or more waterings would have been applied to the standing 

 crop. Other comparative results obtained the same year in 

 the manner described above are summarized in Table I. 



'Main, T. F. Agricultural Journal of India, vol. XIII, 1918, p. 653. 



