 ... the fire is usually kindled. The high lands are selected for this crop and are ploughed from eight to twelve times up to September and October when the seeds are sown. This is done in parallel rows, distant about a cubit from each other, and before...  A Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca - Page 131by James Taylor (Surgeon) - 1840 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir William Wilson Hunter - 1875 - 710 pages
...stopped up so as to exclude the air, is hung up to the roof of the hut, and over the spot on which the fire is usually kindled. The high lands are selected for this crop, and are ploughed for eight or twelve times, up to September and October, when the seeds are sown. This is done in parallel... | |
 | Sir George Watt - 1907 - 570 pages
...hut, and over the spot where Bowing In October. Swelling flbre. British Cottongrowing Association. the fire is usually kindled. The high lands are selected...with water. The cotton plant is liable to injury from hailstorms, heavy rain, and caterpillars.' ' Formerly the ground for cotton was allowed to lie fallow... | |
 | Sir George Watt - 1908 - 1216 pages
...stopped up, so as to exclude the external air, is hung up to the roof of the hut, and over the spot where the fire is usually kindled. The high lands are selected...with water. The cotton plant is liable to injury from hail-storms, heavy rain and caterpillars." ..." Formerly the ground for cotton was allowed to lie fallow... | |
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