Abstract

                                I have been requested by your President to tell you about some of the recent advances made by the Madras Agricultural Department. Before attempting to do so, I want those of you who are strangers to this part of India to realize that in this Presidency we have a very wide range of condi- tions and we are able to grow in consequence more or less every crop which is grown in India with the single exception perhaps of Bengal jute.

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