Hematidrosis or Sweating of Blood - Due to the mixing of blood with the sweat because of some circulatory disease.

Hen - A female Fowl over 18 months of age, having completed the first Laying Period. Usually applied to domestic poultry. Also any female bird.

Haptachlor - An insecticide of the chlorinated hydrocarbon type, similar to and sometimes incorporated in chlorane, used for seed dressing.

Herb - A vascular plant which is distinguished from a tree or shurbs by having a non woody stem. It is often used in medicine or for' providing scent or flavouring.

Herbage - Herbaceous vegetation. It is generally applied to grassland species.

Herbicide - A pesticide which kills weeds. The action of a herbicide may be either selective, killing the weeds only and leaving the crop unharmed, or non selective (or total), in which all vegetation is killed. The latter type are usually applied to fields before planting. Herbicides are normally applied either as foliar sprays direct to the soil where they have a residual effect. Applications may be before crop sowing (pre-sowing), after sowing but before crop emergence (pre-emergence), or after crop emergence (post-emergence).

Herbivore - An animal which eats grass and other herbage (e.g., cattle, sheep, rabbits, etc.) as distinct from a flesh eating carnivore or an Omnivore.

Herd - A group of animals kept together for management particularly cattle.
2. A person who looks after a herd or flock, e.g., cowherd, shepherd, etc. Also an abbreviated form of shepherd.

Herd Improvement Test - Kind of production test which is carried out for dairy cows in which the whole herd, rather than any individual animal, is kept under test for the whole year.

Herd Test - Refers to a semi-official test for milk 'Production of the whole herd in which all milk-producting animals are taken into consideration.

Hereford - A heavy and hardy breed of cattle, characteristically deep red with white markings on the head, back chest, legs and tail tassel. A relatively early maturing breed, with short, strong legs, and a short, broad head. Sometimes polled now-a-days. A dominant breed throughout the world, known for it grazing ability.

Hesperidin - Crystalline substance which is found in orange and other fruits. Chemically it is a rhammo-glucoside of heoperetin, a flavanone closely related to flavone.

Heteroauxin - Growth-regulating substance such as β-indoleacetic acid.

Heterophytes Antibody - All the non-green plants which are not unable to prepare their own carbohydrate food but draw it from different sources. They are either parasites or saprophytes.

Heterosis - Literally means a condition which is different from parents, Genetically it is the increased vigour growth, yield, or function of a hybrid over the parents that has resulted from the crossing of genetically unlike organisms.

Heterotrophic Cells - Cells that need complex nutrient molecules like amino acids, glucose etc. from which to obtain energy and to build their own macromolecules.

Heterozygous - A genetical term for a plant or animal having a dominant gene for a particular characteristic (e.g., hair colour) derived from one parent and a recessive gene from the other, as distinct from two identical genes (when termed Homozygous).

Hexagonal System of Planting - Refers to planting fruit trees in 1\11 orchard at each corner of an equilateral triangle, by which 6 trees form a hexagon, the 7th tree being planted in the centre. This system has been found to be useful where land is expensive and very fertile with a good supply of water.

Hidden Hunger - Expression which is used to designate a condition in plant and animals brought about through the lack of certain essential elements in feed or in the soil and is not easily detected by outward appearance.

High Fanning - Farming to it high standard with good management and producing good yields, as distinct from low fanning in which yields are low, due to poor management or infertile land.

High Pressure High Volume Sprayer - Hydraulic sprayer which is used for spraying tall trees and dense crops, similar to multipurpose which is multicylinder, plunger type, larger tank-size, can cover 10 to 20 acres a day.

High Temperature Short Time Process (HTST) - A treatment in which heating, of milk is done at a temperature of 1600 to 1620 for 12 to 20 seconds.

Hill Dropping - The method is used for sowing in which seeds are dropped at fixed spacing and not in a continuous stream. Thus the spacing between plant to plant in a raw remains constant.

Hill Placement - Application of fertilizer either in bands or in local areas near the plants like cotton, cabbage, tomato etc.

Hinge - A term applied to the uncut soil left by the share of wing of a plough which does not cut a full furrow width.

Hinny - The progeny of a stallion and female Ass; hardy, but sterile.

Hipped Cattle - Those injured by the horns of other cattle.

Hirsel - A group of heft of sheep. Also the area over which such a heft is grazing, often under the charge of a shepherd. Sometimes called a herding.

Hitch - The mechanism by which trailers and trailed implements are connected to a tractor for towing. The two main types are the Drawbar and the Pick-Up Hitch.

Hock - The projecting middle joint, of elbow-like appearance, on the hind legs of animals.

Hoe - A trailed implement used to cultivate the soil between row crops to control weeds, consisting of horizontal blades drawn just below the soil surface. Various types exist including Tractor Hoes, Steerage Hoes, and front-or mid-mounted hoes which are rigidly connected to the tractor and are raised or lowered hydraulically, and can be operated by the tractor driver. Hand does ,Comprising a thin blade on a long handle are used by gardeners to loosen soil and to chop and removed weeds.

Hog - A castrated male pig. Also called a bar or barrow pig.

Hog Cholera - Acute, septicalmic, highly contagious and fatal disease or pigs. It is characterized by high fever, anorexia; severe leucopenia, haemorrhages in different parts of the body and it is after accompanied with digestive, nervous and pulmonary symptoms. It gets caused by a filterable virus with a particle size of about 35mµ . The affected animals eliminate the virus in large quantities in all their excretions and secretions.

Hog Flu - Acute,highly contagious viral disease of pigs which is characterized by sudden onset with fever, respiratory symptoms and marked prostration and is caused by a virus related to the human influenza virus.

Hogg, Hoggerel, Hogget - A male or female sheep between being weaned and being shorn for the first time. Sometimes spelt hog. Also called teg.

Hollow Land - Recently ploughed land which has not settled and compacted again.

Holm - Flat, fertile and adjacent to a river.

Holstein - Friesian cattle first imported into Canada in 1881 from Holland and bred there to produce a variety with dairy-like characters (i.e., less flash) and giving high milk and butterfat yields (Milk Yields). Characteristically black and white in colour. Also called the Holstein-Friesian or Canadian Holstein.

Holt - 1. An Orchard. 2. A wooded hill.

Homogenised Milk - Milk made more digestible by breaking up the fat globules so that they are evenly distributed instead of becoming concentrated as cream.

Homozygous - A genetical term for a plant or animals having two identical genes for a particular characterisitic (e.g., hair colour), one genes derived from each parent. The genes may be both dominant or both recessive.

Honey - A thick, sweet fluid prepared by worker bees in a Beehive from nectar collected from flower and stored in the honeycomb (Comb) for feeding to the larvae. Different honey with characteristic flavours are produced from nectar derived from different plant species.

Honeydew Honey - Honey produced wholly or mainly from secretions of, or found on living parts of plants other than the flowers, and which is light brown, greenish brown, black or of any intermediate colour.

Hoof and Horn Meal - A fertilizer, rich in protein, consisting of dried and ground animal hooves or horns (or a combination of both). It has a nitrogen content of 12-14% which is rapidly released when appplied to warm soils, normally before planting or sowing. Also called Hoof Meal, and sometimes Horn Meal.

Hoover - A type of potato digger with a chain elevator.

Hop - A climbing plant (Humulus Iupulus) of the mulberry family which is characterized by a long, rough twining stem and rough vine-like leaves (hop bine) and is bearing clusters of bitter, catkin-like fruits of cones (the hops) used for flavouring beer.

Hop-acre - A unit of hop production consisting of 1200 individual hop plants (Hills), and sometimes 1000 plants, depending on the planting distance.

Hop-dog - A hand tool with a wooden handle and serrated iron jaws used to remove poles (Hop) from the ground.

Hop Mildew - A fungal disease (Sphaerotheca humuli) of hops, causing white spots on leaves, and attacking the female flowers and preventing cone formation. Sometimes late attacks occur causing cones to become reddish coloured (red mould).

Hoppus Food - A unit of measurement of round timber equal to 1.273 cubic f1. The extra 0.273 ft compensates for surplus wood assumed lost during sawing to produce squared planks.

Hormone weedkiller - A synthetic hormone applied to growing crops which acts selectively by causing distored growth and eventual death to weeds whilst leaving the crops unaffected, e.g., 2,4-D, M.C.P.A. Usually called a growth regulator.

Hormones - Organic substances produced by plants and animals in minute quantities. Plant hormones (e.g., Auxins) are involved in growth regulation. Animal hormones (e.g., adrenalin) are usually secreted by various endocrine glands into the blood stream, and affect behaviour and a variety of body functions.

Horse Fly - A general name for the blood-sucking, two-winged tabanid flies e.g., Breeze Fly, Cleg, Gadfly.

Horsefly Repellent - Horseflies in small dirty herds could be repelled by employing following mixture.

content parts w/w

water 2

Tar oil 1

Fish oil1

Kerosene 1

Soap shavings 1

pulverized Rosin 2

water 0.5

The soap and rosin are boiled in water until dissolved. The remaining ingredients are then added and the whole mixture is boiled for 15-20 minutes. The mixture should be applied every 2-3 days.