Excerpt from Hand-Book to the Cotton Cultivation in the Madras Presidency: Exhibiting the Principal Contents of the Various Public Records and Other Works Connected With the Subject in a Condensed and Classified Form, in Accordance With a Resolution of the Government of IndiaDrill husbandry: land ploughed and cast in ridges, eight or ten inches high, at intervals of about five feet, 36, Sowing in a furrow of about two inches deep along the centre of each ridge, 37, Scrap ing out of'superfiuous plants and weeds, 37 Banking up the ridges, first with the plough and afterwards with the hoe, 37, Keeping down extraneous vegetation until the crop ripens, 37, Native ploughs and American ploughs compared: question of whether American Cotton would thrive without ridging, 38.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.