ABSTRACT
For some hundreds of miles along the western coast of India runs a range of mountains precipitous towards the-Arabian Sea, but broken and undulating on the Eastern side of the ridge. Against this mountain wall, called the Western “Ghats”, beats the torrential downpour of the summer monsoon, giving to the inland tracts on or beyond the summit rains which are heavier or lighter according to the varying amount of protection afforded by the different elevations. Even in India, however, the farmers in some districts are said “to shrink from the transplanting system because of the cost and the heaviness of the labour” and no doubt experiment is everywhere required to ascertain how far the results of transplanting justify the cost. The next point noted for consideration is the manuring of the seed-bed. In districts in India where the use of burnt manure does not prevail, it is not unusual to put on the seed-bed ordinary unburnt manure.
