Owing to the favourable time of transplanting even the small 

 seedlings of tobacco were planted ; but on account of constant 

 rain, they rotted and there were several blanks in the fields. The 

 scarcity of seedlings was much felt this year and many a cultivator 

 made a profitable business in selling extra seedlings. Kodra, 

 barley, rice, etc., were much benefited by this rain, In the month 

 of September there were only 3'65 inches of rain. On the whole 

 it may be said that the season was a favourable one for crops in 

 general when compared with the past few years. 



Manurial Experiments. 

 3. Irrigated Tobacco. The object was 



(1) to compare the effects of the following manures : 



(a) Farmyard manure, 



(b) Castor-cake, 



(<?) Farmyard manure + castor-cake, 



(d) Farmyard manure + nitre, 



(e} Farmyard manure 4- sodium nitrate, 



(/) Farmyard manure + ammonium sulphate, 



(g} San ploughed in as green manure ; 



(2) to compare tobacco grown in rotation with tobacco 



grown continuously ; 



(3) to compare the effects of ordinary and deep ploughing 



on tobacco. 



By deep ploughing is meant ploughing with an English Turn- 

 wrest plough followed by a country wooden plough in the same 

 furrow. 



The following table shows the details of cultivation of the 

 several tobacco plots ; 



