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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 3, p. x.

x TABLE OF CONTENTS II. Cultivation PAGE Tillage implements . 11 Ploughs . . . . . 12 Scarifiers . . 13 Seed-drills 13 Bullock-hoes . 4 Harrows . 14 Levellers and clod-crushers I4 Carts 14 Hand-tools for digging and earthwork 14 Sickles 15 Winnowing sieves 15 Tillage and tilth 15 Defective seed selection . i6 Irrigation specially necessary in India . . . . Facilities for irrigation in the three soil-divisions 17 Canal and well irrigation in the alluvial tract 17 Tank-irrigation in the crystalline tract IS Irrigation in the Deccan trap tract chiefly from wells . 9 High farming under well-irrigation . 19 Manures 20 Town waste as manure 20 Improved conservation of manure necessary 2. . Use of leaves, &c. 2 1 Mineral manures 22 Use of bones as manure . 22 Oil-cakes and fish-manure 22 Green manuring 23 Improvement of manure supplies 23 Fallows 23 Cultivable land left waste 23 Intermittent cultivation in virgin soils 24 Nomadic cultivation 24 Rotation of crops 25 Mixed crops 25 JILz Principal Cropts Rice 26 Area cultivated 26 Varieties . 26 Season of growth 27 Rice-fields and their preparation 27