As the Departmental Officers engaged on district work are almost daily receiving enquiries regarding short duration variety of paddy which could mature in 80 days, arrangements have been made by Messrs. Rangaraju & Bros. 5 Mount Road, Madras to procure 60 measures of seeds of this variety with a view to dis- tribute at the rate of not more than one measure, free to such of the members of the Union who have passed out of the College and who can directly experiment and record the results for being published in the organ of the Union. The Madras Agri- cultural Students' Union Journal. The seeds will be available by the 15th of August and those who are anxious to experiment may apply to the Managing Proprietor, Messrs. Rangaraju & Bros. 5 Mount Road, Madras.
Chelvaranga Raju J. (Mon,) studied this question.