Antibody ttre against Pasteurcila multocida was determined by indirect haemagelutination test in the purificd colustral immunoglobulins of ten crussbred cows. All cows had a varying amount (1:4-1:10 ... Read More
Pharmacokinetic parameters which describe the distribution and climination of oxytetracycline were investigated in 6 normal bectal goats following intravenous administration of a single dose (25 mg/ ... Read More
The effect of substituting animal protein and vitamin mineral source with dried manure silage in broiler feeds was studied in a trial conducted on 80, 7-day-old broiler chicks. The control group was f ... Read More
Management Research and Training Programme for Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Effect of different tillage implements used for land preparation for wheat crop has been studi ... Read More
In order to evaluate that to what extent the students of Rural Home Eco-nomies Class were satisfied with their Diploma course, the opinion of available 97 respondents was sought with the help of a que ... Read More
The present study aimed at finding out the impact of varying fertilizer and paddy rice prices upon level of fertilizer use and rice productivity in Sheikhupura district. Data collected from 100 respon ... Read More
A study involving 240 broiler chicks was conducted to observe the influence of different levels of pesticide (Lannate) and protein on the haematological picture of the chicks. The results indicated si ... Read More
Seventy-nine Angus x Hereford crossbred steers (avg. wt. 348 kg) were used to determine the effects of energy level, protein level and protein source on perfor-mance of growing steers. The experiment ... Read More
This paper describes the diet of 1-area indica in the agroecosystem of central Punjab where wheat, sugarcane, and fodders are dominant crops. Cereals (viz., wheat, sorghum, and millet) together with C ... Read More
Response of three varieties of maize (Zea mays L.) viz. Akbar, Sadaf and Sul-tan was compared in NaCI salinated soil. Germination, though delayed was not yet reduced in any of these varieties. There w ... Read More
To see the effect of feed restrictions during brooding period (rust 10 days) on the subsequent performance of broiler chicks (42 days), 150 day-old chicks were purchased and divided into different gro ... Read More
Field experiments were conducted to study different compaction levels on rice growth. Surface compaction treatments were given at two levels of dry bulk density with the help of steel roller. It was o ... Read More
Samples from various layers of the Khurrianwala soil series (Nor's cambor-11:1(1) were subjected to hydraulic conductivity measurements. Hydraulic conductivity was measured with a set of treatments 1) ... Read More
The response of spring maize cv. "Agaitti-72" to nitrogen rates (100, 150, 200, 250 tug kg-1 soil) under different salinity/s€ dieity levels (EC, 2.7 + SAR 5.3, EC, 4.2 + SAR 9.1, EC, 8.5 + SAR 21.0, ... Read More
A comparative study on growth and yield performance of maize cultivars, Neelum, Sunehri, UM-31, Baymesal and Akbar was conducted in a sandy clay loam field. The crop was sown on August 8, 1989 in the ... Read More
Investigations into the feasibility of intercropping of lentil in gram planted in strips of three rows (80 cm between strips and 20 cm between rows) were carried on a sandy clay loam soil. The treatme ... Read More
The flalid planthoppers arc very im-portant plant pests and these constitute the largest family of the superfamily Fulgo-roidea. Walker (1851, 1870), Melichar (1903), Kirkaldy (1903) anti Metcalf (195 ... Read More
The study pertaining to the yield and quality of autumn planted sugarcane as affected by different planting dates was conducted on a sandy clay loam soil. The planting dates were August 15, September ... Read More
A field trial to see the effect of different rates of nitrogen at a constant level of phosphorus on growth, grain yield and quality of maize (Zea mays L.) was carried out on a sandy clay loam soil ... Read More
Five clite inbred lines of maize werc crosscd in all possible combinations in or- der to find the correlation and path cocfficicnt of grain yicld with plant height, num- ber of cars per plant, numbe ... Read More
A comparative study was conducted from 1988 to 1990 at National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad to evaluate twelve varieties of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck). Campbel Valencia produced ... Read More
Chemical composition and hygienic quality of the samples of milk marketed at the canteens of various hospitals located in the cily of Faisalabad, were determined using the standard techniques. The f ... Read More
Watercourse losses were studied on a walercourse No. 52810-L located at Shahkot distributory. The conveyance losscs were found 41% comprising 19.5% on main watercourse and 21.5% on farmer’s branches ... Read More
Chemical analysis of four out of ninctcen inbred lines of maize scrcened for relative resistance against Chilo partedlus (Swin.) indicated that Na and Fe were more in comparatively resistant inbred ... Read More
Specimens of rotted potato, tomato, chilies, sponge gourd, onion and garlic yielded 90 species of fungi. Among these, species of Aspergillus, Penieillium and Fusariurn were of dominant occurrence. Maj ... Read More
A total of 6300 trappings in the wheal-sugarcane-fodder canal irrigated farm-land, resulted the trap success of 4.9% in cotton, 6.5% in fodders, 5.0% in the sug-arcane, 4.8% in vegetable crops and 3.1 ... Read More
A pot study was conducted during the year 1987-88 on rice and wheat to evaluate the effect of different sources of P (nitrophos, single super phosphate, diammonium phosphate and triple super phosphate ... Read More
The effect of Heilaeutyiencinis indicus Siddigi, 1963 and Pratylenchus penetrans Cobb, 1977 Filipjev & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1941 in single and mixed inoculum levels was studied on growth parameters o ... Read More
To establish relationship with productivity, some bearing trees were selected and amino acid analysis of their leaves and flowers (males and hermaphrodite sepa-rately) was conducted. It was observed t ... Read More
Relative yields and evapotranspiration (ET) of sugarcane were determined under different climatic conditions using the model PLANTGRO which was developed in Western USA. Field measurements of ET from ... Read More
Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of various micro- and macro-nutrients on the growth of potato wilt. Potassium and Ca alone and in com-bination' reduced the will incidence. Howev ... Read More
Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of various micro- and macro-nutrients on the growth of potato wilt. Potassium and Ca alone and in com-bination' reduced the will incidence. Howev ... Read More
Salt-affected is a general term for saline, saline-sodic and sodic soils and the term brackish is mostly used for waters having hazardous levels of EC, SAR and/or RSC. Salient properties under each of ... Read More
The study was aimed to evaluate the effect of stomp-330E (Pendimethalin), Primextra-50WP (Atrazine + Metalachlor), Banvel-P (Dicamba + Mecoprop), Blades plus (Aare); Blades), Basta-2OSL (Glufosinate a ... Read More
Three different insecticides viz., Polytrin-C, Danitol and Monitor each at the rate of 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2 per cent were tried against whitefly (Bentisia 'abaci), Jassid (Amrasca devastans) and tingid b ... Read More
An attempt has been made to create awareness in respect of agricultural pol-lution. The level of global communication resulting from the use of biocides has as-sumed an alarming dimension. Almost ever ... Read More
The study aimed at judging the economic viability of ADBP's small farmers Dairy Development Loans. The data collected from Sialkol area were analysed by using discounted measures of project worth. At ... Read More
Two basal (broiler starter and Finisher) rations were prepared containing crude protein 23 or 20% with metabolized energy 3000 Kcal/kg during starter phase and crude protein 19 or 20% with metabolizab ... Read More
Two basal (broiler starter and Finisher) rations were prepared containing crude protein 23 or 20% with metabolized energy 3000 Kcal/kg during starter phase and crude protein 19 or 20% with metabolizab ... Read More
Seeds of wheat were soaked in 0, 1000, 1100, 1200 and 1300 ppm solutions of stabilan for 24 hours. Stabilan (2-chloroethyl) trimethyl ammonium chloride treat-ment decreased the plant height significan ... Read More
An experiment was conducted to study the effects of flavomycin, O-tetra-45 and tylosin premix at the Poultry Experiment Station, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, using 84 day-old Hubbard broiler ... Read More
Gunibel and GEV (generalized extreme value) flood frequency curves for river Chenab at Marala have been developed using 64 years (1925-1988) data concerning annual maximum flood series. The GEV distri ... Read More
To establish machine crop factors interrelationships and to evaluate the com-parative performance of John Deere and Claas combines, the present study involved experiments with three speeds of the comb ... Read More
A reference group is an identifiable group whose supposed perspective is used by the actor as a frame of reference in the organization of perceptual field. Thus one's reference group both sets and enf ... Read More
Eight years monthly average climatic data collected from the Shahkot Project area were used to predict the irrigation schedules with and without rainfall contri-bution for the wheat, sugarcane, bcrsee ... Read More
Complete energy audits of 64 tubewells, installed in metropolitan area of Islamabad, Pakistan, were carried out in order to evaluate the performance of the pumping system and assess the possible pot ... Read More
Science is popularly defined as an ac-cumulation of systematic knowledge. Such a definition is adequate only to the extent that the words "systematic" and "knowledge' arc themselves properly defined. ... Read More
During July, 1990 the fruits and branches of guava (Psidium guajam L.) plants growing in some orchards in suherhs of Faisalabad were found to be affected with anthracnose disease caused by Glocospothi ... Read More
Genotypic and phenotypic correlation coefficients were worked out for grain weight per spike, harvest index, economic yield and biological yield in six strains/varieties of wheat to select the genotyp ... Read More
Physiological parameters conferring salt tolerance in wheat were studied in two sets of experiment. Selected and non-selected population of LU 265 and LYP 73 were tested in set-I at EC of 0, 10 and 20 ... Read More
Response of a wheat variety, Pato as,entina, to salinity and hypoxia was studied under green-house conditions using hydroponic technique. Wheat seedlings were exposed to stepwise NaCl salinity while h ... Read More
An Association under WUA Ordinance became a prerequisite for the renovation of watercourse. The study shows that the ordinance has not been considered very relevant by the water management officials w ... Read More
Bavistin, Panoram, Calixin and Antracol were the most effective in that order in reducing sclerotial formation of Afacrophomina phaseolina. Rubigon exhibited intermediate effectiveness while Liromenze ... Read More
In a pot experiment brackish water (EC 2 dS tn-1, SAR 12, RSC 3 me L-1) with different Ca:Mg ratios (4:1, 2:1, 1:1, 1:4, 1:6) was applied to wheat and rice crops grown on a calcareous sandy loam salin ... Read More
Nine varieties of American Upland and American-Egyptian cotton, viz. Th41, UKA. B1-(72)049, Bulgaria 996, Coker 100 WILT, Acala 4-42 WR, Deltapine 16, Gregg 35 x L, Pima 55 and Sea Island Seaberry, fr ... Read More
Gene action was studied for ginning outturn percentage, staple length and fibre fineness in a diallel cross of six cotton cultivars viz. Allcpo-45, Okara, Cocker 5110/111, Brace 81/6, SPA/66 and 272/7 ... Read More
Under laboratory conditions, the effect of clay content, plant cover, plant species, seasonal temperature and the size of urea granules on ammonia loss was in-vestigated. Increasing clay content from ... Read More
Water plays a vital role in various structural, physical and metabolic processes in plants. The study of plant water relations drew the attention of plant research sci-entists by the start of this cen ... Read More
Effects of sowing date, plant population and planting method on the accumu-lation of leaf area index and dry matter yields in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L., cv. Amazon) were investigated during 1982/83 ... Read More
A study on five new strains namely FD-20, FD-22, LS-440, LSD-158 and LSD-170 and three Desi commercial cottons D-9, Ravi and Rohi, was undertaken to evaluate raw cotton characteristics. Data revealed ... Read More
Milk is a basic food for all age groups, having a very complex chemical compo-sition which differs among species and breeds, It is a perishable commodity which undergoes various deteriorative reactio ... Read More
Evaluation is an essential process to determine the strength and weakness of any agriculture extension service and to suggest measures for its improvement. Keeping the said aspect in view, 150 farmer ... Read More
Auto-start graduated siphon tube has been developed that has helped solve the problem of priming and measurement of hydraulic head differential while irrigating the field. This siphon tube is very sim ... Read More
Demonstration techniques are considered to be more effective as compared to other extension teaching methods and an extension agent is expected to adopt these techniques frequently for convincing the ... Read More
Corticosteroid induced histological changes were studied in the skin of the guinea pig. Betamethasone-17-valerate (0.1%) ointment was applied twice daily to a small area of animal's dorsal skin. Skin ... Read More
Data on Sahiwal cows kept at the Livestock Production Research Institute, Bahadurnagar, Okara during the period 1963-87 were utilized for this study. The 305-day milk yield based on 2030 lactation rec ... Read More
Ground-water is an important source of water supply throughout the world. Transmissivity and Storage Coefficient are two important parameters in ground-water problems, Theis technique was used for the ... Read More
Growth response of major carps in a pond fertilized with layer manure, at the level of 0.10 g nitrogen/100 g of wet fish weight daily and control (without additives) was examined. Individual weight, f ... Read More
The application of tractors and equipment may produce compaction and parti-cle size of soil of such values that may greatly affect the emergence pressure and growth of seedlings. This study was accord ... Read More
Chemical and hygienic quality of milk supplied to canteens of various educational institutions in Faisalabad city ... Read More
Pak. J. Agri. Sei., Vol. 28, No. 1, 1991 REDUNDANCY AND SELECTION IN THE READING PROGRAMME Abdul Haq Malik Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Read ... Read More
The European bee Apis mellifera L., previously reported to be indifferent to 'shoran' Plectranthus won's, has been observed foraging on this wild plant in the higher hills during the last few years. O ... Read More
Leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis inedinalis (Guen.) is inflicting severe losses in rice since its endemic outbreak in Punjab during 1984. Three dust, 6 emulsifiable con-centrates and 3 granular insecticide ... Read More
The fixation of added potassium by three different size fractions of clay (coarse, medium and fine) was studied at the rate of 50 and 100 iti,g/ml. The results revealed that the fine clay fraction ( < ... Read More
A turbidometric technique has been developed to quantify the coarse and fine clay in soil. This helps to elucidate the variations of clay sizes and amounts in the soil samples. The technique will be u ... Read More
An in 'fro evaluation of the fungitoxicity of various fungicides against As-cochyta rabiei revealed Sunlate, Topas C-50, Dithane M-45, Rizolax, Daconil and Pencozeb to be the most effective, in that o ... Read More
In a pot experiment, the effects of nitrogen source and soil texture were stud-ied on the growth of rnazenta fodder under saline-sodic soil condition. An increase of 38 and 36% in fresh matter was obs ... Read More
Investigations on the biology of Gurdaspur borer of sugarcane, Acigona ste-Welts (Hampson), carried out in the field cages under semi-natural conditions, in-dicated that the incubation period occupied ... Read More
A 5 x 5 complete diallel cross of wheat was analysed for combining ability of traits like plant height, number of fertile tillers per plant, days to heading, days to maturity, grain weight per ear, 10 ... Read More
A field experiment was conducted on cotton varieties NIAB-78 and NIAB-86 for exploring the possibilities of ameliorating the adverse effect of flower and boll shedding on yield of seed cotton through ... Read More
The lower four and eight subsurface horizons of the Gujranwala and Satghara soils, respectively were separated by wel sieving into 15-2 mm, 2-0.05 mm (sand) and <0.05 mm (silt and clay) size fractions ... Read More
Response of three rose rootstocks i.e. Surkha, Lahori and Gulkandi to various Naa salinity levels (EC. 5, 10, 15 dSm-1) was studied. Sodium and chloride contents of leaves increased with increasing le ... Read More
The biological intercrop relationship of wheat-methra intercropping systems comprising four rows of wheat + one row of methra, four rows of wheat + two rows of methra, four rows of wheat + three rows ... Read More
Twelve local cows in an early lactation stage (2nd-3rd lactation) were assigned to 4 treatments having 3 animals in each group. All cows were offered rice straw ad libitum, 0.5 kg rice bran and 3 to 4 ... Read More
This study was conducted in fifty randomly selected villages of Faisalabad Tehsil to assess the need of agricultural education for young farmers. The data col-lected from 250 randomly selected young f ... Read More
This study was conducted to evaluate professional education with special refer-ence to agriculture in the Punjab. An analysis of the data collected through a ques-tionnaire mailed to 100 randomly sele ... Read More
Pakistan's record in spreading literacy among masses has not been very envi-ous. According to some recent estimates, UNESCO put literacy rate in Pakistan at a mere 35%. A reference to the 5th, Oth and ... Read More
A project was undertaken in five randomly selected schools of Shahkot Tehsil. By taking 10 students from each class, 5 teachers from each school and all the five headmasters, Le. 150 student responden ... Read More
The Training and Visit Programme (T & VP) has recently been launched all over the Punjab after considering its superiority over the conventional one in mini-mizing the gap between the farmer and the f ... Read More
The concrete and bricks when used for watercourse lining are not completely impervious and some seepage losses are likely to occur. Provision of some imperme-able layer like polyethylene sheet beneath ... Read More
The aim of this study was to determine the interactions between direct drilling opener design specifications and seed groove micro-environments responsible for seed/seedling performance in a wet soil. ... Read More
Data pertaining to various factors supposed to be concerned with mortality among lambs and kids were obtained from the record of the Livestock Experiment Station, Rakh Kheirewala, District Leyyah for ... Read More
A feeding trial of 84 days duration was conducted on 12 Nili-Ravi buffaloes. They were randomly divided into two groups (A it 13) of six animals each and fed sorghum silage and green fodder to meet ma ... Read More
The chemical composition and hygienic quality of milk marketed at the can-teens of various educational institutions located in the city of Faisalabad, were de-termin.ed using the standard techniques. ... Read More
The fixation of added potassium by three different size fractions of clay (coarse, medium and fine) was studied at the rate of 50 and 100 iti,g/ml. The results revealed that the fine clay fraction ( < ... Read More
Effect of different salinity levels on plant growth and ionic composition of Dicanthiuni annuiatunz was studied in gravel culture experiment. Salinity decreased the plant growth of this species. Na + ... Read More
