Report of Society's Meetings. 
381 
Tbe samples were planted on nth June and 5 weeks afterwards were 
transplanted ; during the first two months after planting the weather 
was very heavy, total rainfall for June and July being 33 inches, as a 
consequence the rice-beds were often flooded for a length of time, said 
to be iujurious to the growth of the rice. The names of, and descrip- 
tion of soil suitable for, the seven samples sent are mentioned and for 
the sake of comparison the returns from a sample of Colonial rice which 
was also planted, viz : — 
Name. 
Soil Suitable. 
When 
Reaped. 
Yield 
IN LBS. 
Length of 
Straw. 
Ba.oor Jhar 
High land 
15th Sept. 
34o 
4 ft in. 
Faparee 
do. do. 
do. 
iip 
Madhu Madhab 
| Slightly low 
I land 
26th oar. 
84 
4 ft 10 in." 
Lall Kalma 
f Low & marsh 
1 soil 
22nd do. 
180 
S ft in. 
Rajmohun 
do. do. 
24th do. 
173 
5 ft in. 
Kokella Voge 
do. do. 
1st Novr. 
224 
4 ft 9 in. 
Gnhota 
do. do. 
4th do. 
408 
5 ft in. 
Colonial 
do. do. 
22nd O&r. 
165 
4 ft d in. 
Plant. Versailles, 8th Dec. 1892. 
The President, Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, B. G. 
Sir,— Having reaped the rice grown from the samples supplied me by 
Mr. Rodway, I have much pleasure in tendering the following report 
thereon, and only regret that the failure of those " to be grown on high 
lands" makes it less complete than I could have wished. 
Of the four samples marked " to be grown on low marshy lands" the 
dark variety gave the heaviest return, although the straw was compara- 
tively short, and none of the Indian varieties gave as much as a sample 
of same weight (1 lb.) of ordinary creole rice planted a week later under 
similar conditions. 
The samples occupied four cross canals of 50 roods length and about 
a rood wide, but as no account was taken of the area on which each 
sample was grown, the weight per acre, can hardly be got at for each. 
The plants were put in a little wider than usual and I have no doubt 
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