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Grace Halsell
No full textFan letter to Halsell for Soul SisterBradtenton, Fla.
March 23, 1971
Dear Miss Halsell,
I would first of all like to tell you that I enjoyed your book yet was disappointed at the end to find it so short. I’m doing a report and would like very much a picture of yourself as well as when you were black and now have retained your original color. I have two interpretations of how you looked, the picture of the paperback showered a bronze coloring yet a picture of the hard back book showed a greytone coloring and any pictures of your journey would be gratified.
I am interested particularly in your life now, has anything been greatly changed with the publication of your experiences as a black woman?
What color were you when you went in that beauty shop, noted in the prologue? How often did you bathe in Harlem? What all did you carry to dress in Harlem and in the South? How did you return from the South? What were the feelings of your family when they were told of your experience? What is the name of the novel and book that you are now working on?
I would like also any address I could use to communicate also with the author of Black Like Me, John Griffin.
Yours truly,
Letha Perkins
P.S. Any information would feel would be benefiting to my report
Awareness of Livestock Farmers on ICT tools
Get PDFA study was conducted to assess farmer capability, awareness and preparedness about ICT tools for livestock farming. The data were collected from 60 respondents of Karnataka, India regarding awareness about ICT tools. The results indicate that 100 per cent of the farmers were aware about various ICT tools and media such as TV, websites, Mobile Applications, SMS based services, Kisan Call Centres etc. All the respondents had knowledge about how to use SMS based services, whereas 97 percent of them knew about use of Mobile applications. Many of them did not know about how to use websites
Feed Chart
No full textReady Reckoner for feeding of crossbred dairy cattle
(For 400 kg crossbred cow)
ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bangalore.
Compiled and Edited by
Dr.D.Rajendran, Dr. N.K.S. Gowda, Dr. S. Anandan, Dr. Letha Devi Dr. K.S. Prasad
Kannada Translation: Dr. N.K.S. Gowda
Published by: Dr Raghavendra Bhatta , Director
Milk Yield (lit/Day)
Recommended Ration (Kg/Day)
High green
Moderate green
Low Green
Concentrate (kg/day)
Green Roughages (kg/day)
Dry fodder (kg/day)
Concentrate Mixture: It is prepared by mixing 30 parts of grains (combination of maize, broken rice, bajra, sorghum or minor millets), 36 parts of brans and chunnis (Combination of wheat bran, rice bran, gram chunnies), 30 parts of oil cakes (Combination of cotton seed meal, soybean meal, ground nut cake, coconut cake sunflower oilcake, til cake), 1.5 part salt, 1.5 part calcite, 1 part mineral mixture / area specific mineral mixture. Mix thoroughly and keep in dry and moisture free condition.
Commercial concentrate mixture also can be used with 18 % CP and Min. 65 % TDN. Feed recommended level as shown in Ready Reckoner in three divided dose.
Green roughage: Maize fodder, Bajra X Napier hybrid grass, para grass, mature sorghum, guinea grass etc., are few examples of green grasses used for feeding. Recommended level of green grass should be chopped at one inch length and fed to the animal in 2-3 divided quantity. During scarcity minimum of 1-2 kg of green grasses is essential to keep the animal in good health.
Dry roughage: paddy straw, wheat straw, sorghum stover, maize stover, dried areca sheath, dried grasses, ground halums, dried tree leaves etc., can be used as dry roughages. Recommended level of dry roughages should be chopped to the level of one inch and fed to dairy cows.
©All copyrights reservedIt is an android application for formulating ration for crossbred dairy cow and milch buffalo. Balanced ration is formulated based on level of milk production i.e., 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15 and 20 lit/day for a cow weighing 400 kg at different levels of availability of green fodder per day. Similarly for milch buffalo balanced ration is formulated based on level of milk production i.e., 3, 6, 9 and 12 lit/day and weighing 450 kg at different levels of availability of green fodder per day (High, moderate and low)NIAN
Just a few lines from my memory
Get PDFGulf of Mannar, My Friend
A sliver stream pass the waters offshore
gilt with sunbeam all over
on whose enamelled waters I dived
and saw how prettily the denizens moved and lived
and how sweetly they moved and bred still
Oh! my friend Mannar gulf
still I adore you
though eighteen years past since I bade thee good-bye
Marine Zoology, Mandapam Camp, Mannar Gulf and Mahadevan
Place-New Delhi, event UPSC selection in 1959 for Marine Zoologist
post in CMFRI-
I was leaving the hall after interview. An attendant emerging fro
A few golden moments
Get PDFThere were several Golden moments to be remembered during my
tenure of 16 years in CMFRI. I consider it as a great privilege and honour
to have been given the opportunity of serving CMFRI for a major part
of my official career and finally to be elevated to the rank of Director.
In fact every symposium, seminar, visit of Hon'ble Ministers, Hon'ble
Members of Parliament committees and other dignitaries to the Institute
provided the golden moments of joy and happiness to the staff members
in view of the appreciation of the work done by the Institute expressed by
these dignitaries from time to time. In fact it was the unity among the
staff and the support extended from their side which provided the Institute
with fame and glory
Down Memory Lane
Get PDFAfter a certain age, reminiscences become a way of life, looking back at
events of the past and one's contributions towards betterment of societal
concerns. Such recollections, when positive, give great joy, happiness and
satisfaction. By God's Grace, my life is filled with such reminiscences and
the one I intend saying has something to do about my nearly sixty years
association with the CMFRI, which I first visited at Mandapam Camp in
1948 as a graduate student of Madras Christian College led by Late Prof.
J. P. Joshua, when a young, handsome aristocrat named Raghu Prasad,
gave us a pep talk about Marine Sciences. Least did I think at that time,
that I would later have a "life-time" association with the Institution
Nostalgic journey
Get PDFI am extremely proud and greatly cherish the memory of being a product
of CMFRI, having started my professional career as a Senior Research
Scholar of the Govt. of India (1958-61) for research in marine fisheries at
Mandapam Camp and culminating as the Director of the Institute (1985-
94).
My desire to pursue for the Ph.D. degree twice earlier at the Indian
Lac Research Institute, Ranchi (1956) and at the University of Delhi (1958)
could not be fulfilled as the facilities and the environs there did not convince
me. Moving to Mandapam Camp from Delhi was termed a 'banishment'
by my supervisor, late Dr. Mary Chandy, Reader at the Delhi University
but it proved to be a boon as I instantaneously felt it the ideal place for
research on fish, my long cherished goal
Waves of happenings wafted with breeze
Get PDFsurprise inspection and said it was nothing but policing them. Appreciating
his sentiments I enumerated the four aspects to assuage his feelings. Thanks
to Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, through ICAR system of assessment for
promotion, all sincere FS were given promotions. Those meetings were
very educative to me that I ever treasure.
Two training programmes for research and technical staff of CMFRI
and other organizations on fish stock assessment and sample surveys,
remained as gateways for free exchange of information to improve the
programmes. It is interesting to recall a question raised by a participant
that when reports from western countries indicated on decline in their
catches due to disappearance of heavily exploited stocks, such things are
not heard in Indian fisheries in spite of intensive fishing here also. The
less fluctuations in our waters, I replied, are due to the nature of major
exploited fish stocks, namely their short life span, fast growth, high fecundity
and multiple spawning.
During a meeting held in Mumbai, CMFRI and Maharashtra State
Fisheries Officials discussed State Fisheries problems. Dignitaries like late
Dr. C.V. Kulkarni graced the occasion. Secretary, State Agriculture
Department presided. The Secretary listened to the problems and solutions.
To improve fish landings, reduction in the intensity of fishing, mesh
regulation and controlling trawling were put forth. Appreciating those
suggestions the Secretary posed that when fishers did not observe them
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Pearls to remember
Get PDFIt was in late 1958, while I was working as an Assistant Research
Officer (Molluscs) at the Madras Research Centre of CMFRI, that I got
an official letter from the Chief Research Officer, CMFRS, Mandapam
Camp, asking me to proceed on tour to Tuticorin at a very early date. It
was to join Dr. Salvadori, an F.A.O. Fishery Scientist who had specialized
in SCUBA (Self contained underwater breathing apparatus) diving as an
understudy. The pearl oyster fishery off the coast of Tuticorin had become
very erratic and for a number of years no fishery was possible due to the
unproductive nature of the pearl oyster beds. Hence the Central
Government requested the Food and Agricultural Organisation at Rome
to depute a fishery scientist who was well versed in SCUBA diving to
Tuticorin for a few months to dive and study the actual status of the
pearl oyster beds and their distribution and also to train personnel for
SCUBA diving. As the pearl oysters in the State was under the jurisdictio
Memories in my life
Get PDFI consider that my stay in CMFRI, Mandapam, for 9 years, is the
golden moment in my life, because I was actively engaged in seaweed
research at that time and this gave me an opportunity to get a thorough
knowledge of seaweed flora of Tamilnadu and also India. Autecological
investigations on agarophytes and alginophytes, survey of economically
valuable seaweeds of Tamilnadu and pioneering experiments on
cultivation of Gracilaria edulis are the major contributions during the
period of my stay at Mandapam, which paved the way for the development
of seaweed Industry in the Country
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