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SEASONS. 



a baggage-cart and bullocks 1 1 anna, per mile. Pack-bullocks penetrate the 

 remoter tracts with merchandise. It was in a great measure owing to the 

 superiority of the j\Iysore bullocks tliat Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan 

 maintained a lengtliened war \di\\ tlie British and IMaliarattas at the end 

 of the last century. The best breed of bullocks is sedulously mamtained at 

 the Government Puljlic Cattle Establishment at Hoonsoor, and extensive 

 pastures are allotted for the grazing of the herds througliout the province, 

 A certain number of first-class bulls are at times distributed to large 

 villages for the free use of the aoiriculturists' herds. 



The seasons in JMysore are three — the cold, hot, and rainy — and are 

 distributed as below : — 



{December. 

 January. 

 February. 



Hot Season, 



( March. 

 I April. 

 (May. 



( June. 

 July. 



Eainy Season, J ^""'^^*; 



' \ beptember. 



I October. 



I November. 



^lornings and evenings cold and bracing ; days bright 

 and sunny. 



Hot, and occasionally sultry, but the nights usually tem- 

 pered by sea-breezes from the west. The hot weather 

 in Mysore is by no means unbearable. Showers and 

 heavy thunderstorms occur at intervals during April 

 and May ; these prelude the south-west monsoon. 



The south-west monsoon commences in June ; heavy 

 rains and showery and overcast weather prevail till 

 September. In October the north-east monsoon com- 

 mences, and thunderstorms and heavy downpours are 

 common. In November the weather is oi'ten bright 

 and cold, but rain falls now and again. 



From May to December are the chief cultivation and harvest mouths, 

 though some crops, as sugar-cane, &c., which are irrigated, are grown the 

 whole year round. 



