Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.34
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.34
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c20.34
I have already mentioned the Drill Husbandry, as an invention of the Hindoos; that of transplanting which has the same object in view, is equally useful and beautiful. It gives the field the regularity of a garden, and every vacant space is filled up. The operation of transplanting is calculated to afford one fourth more of produce than the broadcast method of cultivation. Many of the details of Hindoo Husbandry are curious and original.