Newton's lantern slide catalogue: section 7 -- Industries and Manufactures (circa 1920)

43, Museum Street, London, W.C.l. 839 BV A THE PRODUCTION OF THE RICE CROP. Messrs. Newton are privileged to supply the following Slides by kind permission of the Indian Trade Commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Industry Government of India. 3 The Slides are published in three sections, entitled :— Section I. The Production of the Rice Crop. Section II. Work at the Experimental Schools and Testing Stations. Section III. Rice diseases—see also code B V B (p. 840) for further Slides of Rice Cultivation and other Insect Pests. Coloured Slides, 6s. 6 d. Plain Slides, 2s. each. Typewritten Notes, price 2s., or can be loaned with the Slides. SECTION I. 1 Paddy. Good Crop. 2 A Tank for irrigating Paddy Fields. 3 A Sluice from the Tank with channels branching at different levels. 4 Irrigation Canal with sluice and channels. 5 A method of lowering the level of Paddy Fields. 6 Digging Paddy Fields with Mammatties. 7 Ploughing Paddy Fields. 8 Puddling Paddy Fields. 9 A green manure crop. 10 Carrying bundles of green leaf to the Paddy Fields. 11 Dumping green leaf bundles in Puddled Fields. 12 Spreading and trampling down the leaves. 13 Trimming the bunds before transplanting. 14 Levelling the fields. 15 Sprouted seed ready for sowing. 16 Sowing sprouted seeds. 17 Pulling out seedlings before transplanting. 18 Carrying bundles of seedlings from the nursery to the fields. 19 Transj>ort of seedlings from the nursery to the 20 Another method of transport of seedlings. 21 Transplanting. 22 Guiding water into the transplanted fields. 23 Weeding. 24 Showing growth of Paddy under swampy con- ditions. 25 Harvesting. 26 Reaper at work. 27 The Crop Harvested. 28 Transport of bundles to the threshing floor. 29 Coolies carrying bundles on their heads. 30 Threshing by beating the sheaves. 31 Native method. 32 Removing the straw. 33 Cattle threshing. 34 Heap of grain marked with cow dung water to detect pilfering. 35 Measuring out grain. 36 Heaps of grain protected with straw. 37 A Granary. A bamboo wak plastered with clay and cow dung. ' 38 Platform for stowing Paddy in “ Patterais." 39 A typical 41 Pattarai,” An efficient method of storing Paddy in straw twist. 40 Stowing Paddy seeds in straw bundles. 41 A wooden seed bin. 42 A seed bin of wicker basket. 43 Storing Paddy in a mud bin. 44 Paddy on its way to the market. 45 Paddy bags in a railway yard for transport. 46 Loading the Waggons. 47 Transporting Paddy into country barges. 48 Husking Rice. Country method. 49 Cooked Rice at table. SECTION II. 50 Farming seed beds for single plants. 51 Seedlings two weeks old. 52 Seedlings ready for transplanting. 53 Nurseries of bulk crops. 54 Raising seedlings of artiiicial crosses. 55 Pulling out seedlings of single plant lots. 56 Transplanting comparative trial lots. • 57 Single plant lots in bed. 58 Comparative trial lots. 59 Pure line cultures of Paddy varieties. 60 A perennial Wild Paddy. • Spreading by means of underground suckers. 61 A wild Paddy with depressed habit. 62 Wild Paddy. Single Plant. 63 Plants to show variation in height, habit and duration. 64 Plants selfed in Mull bags. 65 Marking the dates of flowering of individual plants. 66 Genetic study of progenies of crosses. ®7 Two parents of cross. One flowering early. 68 Progeny of the cross, splitting for duration. 69 Comparative trial lots just before harvest. 70 Harvesting of comparative trial lots. 71 Comparative trial lots after harvest. 72 Bundles of comparative trial lots arr ang e for threshing. 73 Threshing of comparative trial lots. 74 Threshing small lots by treading. 75 Drying grain from comparative trial lots. 76 Determining the yields of various strains under comparative trial. 77 Drying of seed from seed multiplication lots of strains under comparative trial. 78 Drying of single plant lots in bags. 79 Stripping and bottling of single plants. 80 Husking test of strains. 81 Seed store. 82 Panicles of a normal and a cluster Paddy with _ ^eir (intermediate) F.I. in the middle. 83 Sterility resulting from a cross. 84 A normal and a dwarf parent with their F.I. in the middle. 85 A panicle. 86 Branch of a panicle showing the opening of the glumes. 87 Parts of Paddy Flower. 88 Segregation for size of grains in the F. 2 of the above cross. 89 Gold Rice. Red Rice. 90 New strains from a cross. 91 Ustilaginoidea virens. (a) Part of sclerotium bearing spores. (b) Ripe Spores. (e) Young spores. (d) Almost mature spores. SECTION III. (e) Germination of the spores and formation of secondary conidia. (f) Budding conidial form obtained in culture Figs, b-d X 900. Figs, e & f X 600.