8 SEASONS. 



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

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

 superiority of the Mysore bullocks that Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan 

 maintained a lengthened war with the British and Maharattas at the end 

 of the last century. The best breed of buUocks is sedulously maintained at 

 the Government Public Cattle Establishment at Hoonsoor, and extensive 

 pastures are allotted for the grazing of the herds throughout the province. 

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

 villages for the free use of the agriculturists' herds. 



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

 distributed as below : — 



p „ \ December. 1 Mornings and evenings cold and bracing ; days bright 



( February. ) ^^ sunny. 



!| Hot, and occasionally sultry, but the nigbts usually tern- 

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

 April. ) in Mysore is by no means unbearable. Showers and 

 May. I heavy thunderstorms occur at intervals during April 

 [ and May ; these prelude the south-west monsoon. 



■June. f The south-west monsoon commences in June; heavy 



Hot Season, 



/"June. (■ ine soutn-west monsoon commences m June; neavy 



j July. I rains and showery and overcast weather prevail till 



■R T-wv Sparon ^ August. | September. In October the north-east monsoon com- 



A NY SEASON, . September. \ mences, and thunderstorms and heavy downpours are 



common. In November the weather is often bright 



and cold, but rain falls now and again. 



(September. \ 

 October. 1 

 November. \ 



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

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

 whole year round. 



