Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c21.14
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c21.14
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c21.14
This cotton was of a dwarf species, and sown by the Drill plough; I saw another field of a different kind, the drills about thirty inches asunder; this I understand was sown by hand; the drills were made by the common plough. In the same way is sown the castor-oil seed, the drills about a yard asunder; in short, the Drill Husbandry is practiced by every Ryot in this district, without a single exception.