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buskers, Chaff-cutters. Root-cutter, Root-pulper, Kibbler, Oil-cake crusher, 

 meal-grinder, hay-trusser, oil-mill, feeding troughs and hurdles, bone and stone 

 grinder, maize-huller, cotton-gin, sugar-cane mill, silos; dairy implements; 

 Insecticidal and fungicidal appliances ; carts ; balances (steel-yard); tea, and 



coffee planters' machinery. pp. 18810192. 



Chapter XVII. Equipment of Farms. Principles governing equipment 

 of different classes of farms ; a typical case ; inferences as to capital charges 

 and annual expenditure per acre; outturn and expenditure in ordinary farming 

 balance each other. pp. 192 to 196. 



PART III.-CROPS. 



Chapter XVIII. Botanical classification of crops. Principal Indian 

 crops coming under Gramineae, Cyperaceae, Amarylliadaceee, Liliacese, Aroideae, 

 Bromiliacese, Dioscorese, Musaceae, Zinziberacese, Cannaceae, Piperacese, Euphor- 

 biacese, Moreae, Sesamese, Solaneae, Convolvulaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Legu- 

 minosae, Lineae, Tiliaceae, Malvaceae, Cruciferse, Compositae, Polygonaceee, 



Chenopodiaceae, Umbelliferae, Urticaceae, and Onagraceae pp. 197 to 201. 



Chapter XIX. Economic classification of crops. Indian cereals, 

 pulses, oil-seeds, fibres, d^es, drugs, spices, table-vegetables, pot-herbs, fruits, 



fodder-crops, roots, timber trees, and miscellaneous crops pp. 202 to 203. 



Chapter XX. Chemical composition of crops. Considered under 

 the six heads (moisture, albuminoids, carbohydrates, fibres, fat and ash). 

 Average composition of the commonest food-substance campared with that of 

 agricultural crops ; variability of composition chiefly of green and succulent 



parts. pp. 20310207. 



Chapter XXI. Relative importance of crops. Agriculturists chiefly 

 concerned with rice, oil-seeds, jute, maize, wheat, sugar-cane, millets and 

 tobacco; Indigo, tea, mulberry, pulses, and certain hopeful crops, also claim 



attention ; acreage under the important crops. pp. 208 to 209. 



Chapter XXII. Rice. The wild rices; Acreage; Varieties of autumn 

 and winter rice ; specially good kinds; Peshwari rice; fine rice ; Rotation for 

 dus paddy; Manuring for dus paddy; Soil suitable for dus paddy; Tillage; 



Irrigation if ever necessary; Harvesting; Outturn; Cost; Aman paddy, 



soil and cultivation suited for it; Manuring and harvesting of dman ; 

 flood resisting varieties ; Outturn of dman ; Boro paddy Various methods of 

 cultivation; Long-stemmed paddy; Rayda paddy; Best climatic conditions for 

 rice cultivation ; Average outturn, Sibpur experiments ; Mixed rice crops ; 



Chemical compositions of rice and rice-dust. pp. 200 to 227 



Chapter XXIII. Paddy-husking. Conservation of rice as paddy; old 

 and new rice ; native method of husking steamed and unsteamed paddy ; 

 Ghatak's paddy-husking machine ; Burn & Co.'s machine; Balmer & Lawrie's 

 machine; the Engelberg Huller; comparison of cost of husking by different 

 systems; Engelberg Huller recommended. pp. 228 to 237. 



