Abstract

                                Accounts of special and peculiar agricultural practices prevailing in the different parts of the Madras Presidency were collected sometime back in the office of the Director of Agriculture. It is seen that these practices suit the local conditions that prevail in the different places, obviously as a result of centuries of experience. Many of them, no doubt, would be equally suitable for other places having similar conditions. With this end in view the following compilation has been made in the hope that it would be both informatory and useful. It has been attempted to group the practices under (1) Crops and (2) Cultivation practices, but there is a certain amount of un- avoidable overlapping on account of their close interdependance.

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