Report on the Operations of the Department of Agriculture. Madras Presidency For the Year 1926-27

The annual repairs to the Research Institute the Hostel the Lawley Road Dispensary and the Rest House and the relaying of the main for water-supply to the Provincial quarters were also attended to by the Agricultural Engineer. [...] The selection of students for the course was made by a Committee consisting of the Hon%le the Minister for Development the Director of Agriculture and the acting Principal of the College. [...] The effect of the season on the crops at the agricultural stations and on the work of d.oraon11 strafing agricultural improvements in the districts described below. [...] The season aided progress in the demonstration of agricultural improvements in the I circle the deltaic areas of the II circle and the V and VII circles. [...] In the IV and VIII circles there was a seback in the distribution of green manure seeds and seeds of improved paddy strains owing to the adverse season though there was an improvement under ploughs ; in the I V circle the area under improved varieties of sugarcane increased ; the adverse season reduced the margin of piefits by the departmental methods on the demonstration plots in both the cir