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Chapter LV. Potato. Rotation ; soil; garden and field systems of culti- 

 vation ; manuring ; irrigation ; harvesting ; use of Double-mould-board 

 plough and Hunter hoe ; planting in double rows; preservation of seed of 

 good varieties difficult ; cost. pp. 336 to 343. 



Chapter LVI. Brinjal. Soil ; varieties; seed-bed ; transplanting ; cul- 

 tivation ; diseases; cost. pp. 343 to 346. 



Chapter LVII.Palval. Pot-herb and table-vegetable ; soil ; cultivation ; 

 cost. pp. 347 to 348. 



Chapter LVII1. Chillies. Subject to diseases ; varieties ; soil ; rotation ; 

 cultivation ; harvest; outturn ; cost. pp. 348 to 350. 



Chapter LIX. English vegetables. Origin ; rules of cultivation &c.j 

 vegetable gardening. pp. 350 to 356. 



Chapter LX. Carrot and Radish. Varieties ; cultivation ; high feeding 

 value of carrot as famine-food. pp. 356 to 358, 



Chapter LXI. Turmeric and Ginger. Method of cultivation ; out- 

 turn. pp. 359 and 360. 



Chapter LXII. Systems of Farming. Difference between planting, 

 gardening and farming; the Single crop system ; Bare.fallowing system; 

 Green-crop-fallowing system; Prout's plan; All-stock-and-no-crop system ; Irri- 

 gation system ; Mixed arable farming ; Market-gardening ; Dairy-farming; 

 Fruit-farming ; suitability of crops to soils : Systems of Rotation adapted for 

 different classes of soil. pp. 361 to 368. 



Chapter LXIII. Propagation of trees. Utility of growing trees; trees 

 suitable for growing in agricultural tracts ; Fruit plantation. ...pp. 386 to 372. 



Chapter LXIV. The Date-Palm. Extracts from Mr. Westland's Report 

 of the Jessore District about native system of extraction of juice and manufac- 

 ture of brown sugar, molasses and white sugar; European methods; the 

 Khandwa experiments. ...pp. 372 to 384. 



Chapter LXV. Sugar. Varieties; Saccharometer ; Inversion; use of 

 Polariscope; Beet-sugar; Improved method of ^wr-making employed at 

 Sibpur. pp. 38410391. 



Chapter LXVI. Sugar-cane. Foreign canes ; indigenous canes ; yield ; 

 sugar-cane-growing localities; soil; apatite; seedling canes; cuttings, 

 topping and pitting; pickling; planting; different methods; proper time of 

 sowing and harvesting; rotation; manuring; harvesting ; cost ; machinery; 

 Sibpur experiments. pp. 392 to 411, 



Chapter LXVII. Indigo. Varieties; manuring ; the crisis, its causes ; 

 cultivation of mahai, khunti and chhitan crops ; manufacture ; tests for pure 

 indigo and synthetic indigo. pp. 411 to 416. 



Chapter LXVII I. Tobacco. Soil ; climate ; varieties ; chemical composi- 

 tion indicative of manures needed ; rotation ; seed-bed ; preparation of land ; 

 transplanting ; after-treatment ; harvesting ; drying and fermenting ; different 

 modes of curing ; suggestions for improvement. pp. 417 to 428. 



