Excerpt from Manual of Agriculture for India The flooding Of fertile lands with canal water has in numerous districts brought saline matters from the sub soil to the surface, producing sterilization. TO meet this evil all kinds Of empirical experiments have been tried, all terminating in the completest of failures. The true and only remedy, however, has never been tried, and 'unless the powers Of the Excise Department are cur tailed, may remain untried. The remedy is simple and practical, and is as follows, viz., All lands sterilized by K utter should, after being ploughed, be sown with the seed of the Lana (salsa/(z soda) Of the Punjab. The land so sown should not be irrigated, and the seed should be sown before the rains commence. The crop will remove a considerable quantity Of salt and sulphate and carbonate Of soda from the soil. The cultivation to be carried on annually (all irrigation being prohibited), until the land refuses to grow any more Lana, owing to exhaustion of the Kat/er. The reclaimed land should now be sown with turnips, which will remove much' sulphuric acid, and next autumn the soil will have been sufficiently sweetened to grow a crop Of wheat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.