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near Jubbulpore showed an outturn of 12^ fold, 

 while the yield from indigenous seed in adjacent 

 fields was only 6 to 7 fold ; and this result was 

 attained with seed of which scarcely 50 per cent. 

 germinated. The Chief Commissioner, in a summary 

 of the results, considers that the plant in these trials 

 shewed itself to possess all the advantages which 

 are generally ascribed to Carolina rice. 



The experiments made in the North-West 

 Provinces seem to have suffered greatly by excessive 

 rains, and the Board of Eevenue, in their report, 

 make due allowance for the circumstance. Some 

 trials, however, especially at Saharunpore and 

 Cawnpore, have been so signally successful, that 

 a report of a detailed description of the method 

 of cultivation adopted has been demanded. 



But the most successful attempts to acclimatize 

 this plant seem to have been made in the Madras 

 Presidency, most of the experiments proving deci- 

 dedly satisfactory. Some trial cultivations in 

 Tellicherry have been very favorably noticed. 

 The yield from a good soil was 160 fold, and the 

 natives were said to have been much impressed 

 with the superior qualities of the rice and straw, and 

 were anxious to cultivate the plant. 



In the Kistna district, a Carolina rice-crop, grown 

 alongside one of the best native paddy, and under 

 precisely similar circumstances, yielded one-and-a- 

 half times as much as the latter ; and one important 



