30 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT, 



gala, 84.09. Upon Delgolla, another Ceylon estate, 

 nearly 100 inches fall per year. In the Indian 

 jungles, with which I am most familiar, we some- 

 times had as much as 120 inches in the twelve 

 months. 



The total average rainfall in each district of 

 Madras ranges thus : 



It is to be noted that the rainfall given above is 

 merely the average for a district, and that it not 

 unfrequently happens that the rainfall in one part 

 of a district varies as widely from that in another 

 part of the same district as it does from that in 

 stations in other districts, if not more so. 



If, in spite of any feasible elevation that can 

 be reached, the tropical sun will have its way, and 

 pours down on the baked soil, threatening destruc- 

 tion to all but the deepest rooted vegetation, then 

 we must have recourse to shade-trees, and grow 



