 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1897 - 1250 pages
...difficulties ffi a way that no one else would. The lacking facilities are water and manure, wr nowhere can one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously...device of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of «hand their capabilities, as well as the exact time to sow and reap, as one can i Indian agriculture;... | |
 | Sir John Strachey - 1894 - 438 pages
...average British farmer, and in some respects superior to him. " Taking," he says, " the ordinary arts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously clear from weeds, of ingenuity in device of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1897 - 1250 pages
...difficulties in a way that no one else would. The lacking facilities aro water and manure, for nowhere can one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously...appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capabilities, аз well as the exact time to sow and reap, as one can in Indian agriculture; and this is not said... | |
 | Prithwis Chandra Ray - 1901 - 126 pages
...agriculturists that can be found on the face of the earth.' Dr. Voelcker thinks : "To take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously free of weeds, of ingenuity in devise of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their... | |
 | Sir Theodore Morison - 1906 - 344 pages
...difficulties in a way that no one*else*would.' And he goes on to say : ' To take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously free of weeds, of ingenuity in device of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their... | |
 | Pestonji Ardesir Wadia, Gulabbhai Naranji Joshi - 1925 - 460 pages
...crop, of appropriating a particular soil for a particular crop by rotation. " To take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances...water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their constituents, as well as of the exact time to sow and to reap, than one would in Indian agriculture,... | |
 | Vandana Shiva - 1991 - 282 pages
...ingenuity in device of water raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capabilities as well as of the exact time to sow and to reap as one would in Indian agriculture, and this not at its best only but at its ordinary level. It is wonderful, too, how much is known of rotation, the system of... | |
 | James P. Sterba - 1998 - 258 pages
...make really valuable suggestions for that of India. To take the ordinary acts of husbandry, no where would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously clean from weeds, of ingenuity in device of water raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capacities as well as of the exact time to... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 2000 - 466 pages
...facilities to which they have access, such as the supply of water and manure. But, to take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances...appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capabilities, as wull as the exact time to sow and to reap, as one would in Indian agriculture, and this not at its... | |
 | Helena Norberg-Hodge, Peter Goering, John Page - 2001 - 164 pages
...belief that agriculture on the Indian subcontinent was primitive and backward when he wrote in 1893: 'Nowhere would one find better instances of keeping...knowledge of soils and their capabilities, as well as of the exact time to sow and reap, as one would find in Indian agriculture. It is wonderful, too, how... | |
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But, to take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously clean from weeds, of ingenuity in device of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capabilities, as well as... 