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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ultimately to red earthy soil, fer-tile and well suited for wet cultivation. A band of limestone, belong-ing to what is known as the Kurnul Series, runs east and west, somefifty miles wide, across the western half of the State,—a hard, lami-nated stone, extremely useful for building purposes. Iron stone hillsand coal-measures exist on the eastern side of the State, borderingthe Godavery. Roughly speaking, in the western half of the country black cot-ton soil chiefly prevails, the result of the disintegration of basalticrocks. In this soil successful cultivation depends only on the rainthat soaks into it in the monsoon season ; the crops are cereals, cot-ton, grain, castor, linseed, and other oil plants. These are calleddry crops. In the eastern half of the country the red earth, theresult of the disintegration of gneiss, is most suitable for the cultiva-tion of rice and sugar cane, which are essentially wet crops. The capital of the State, the city of Hyderabad, is situated about 59
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MAP OF INDIA. I lie sliaflfd poilinii icprcsciils the 11yilotahad Statr,IK;. I. 60 TANK IRRIGATION IN CENTRAL INDIA. 61 midway between the eastern and western boundaries and one-thirdway from the south between the southern and northern. The dottedline shown on the map (Fig. 2) divides the country where wet culti-vation abounds from that in which dry cultivation is mostly practised.It is not to be supposed that there are no irrigated crops on the west-ern side of that line, but, as we proceed west and north, we find thatirrigation works get rapidly fewer, and disappear as we approach theboundaries. Irrigation on a small scale, by the water supplied from C E N T R A L- PROVINCES

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