This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...an acre properly an amount equivalent to 12 inches in depth. The rainfall at Umritsur, near which place the experiments were made, during the dry months, when the crops were grown, was about 5 inches. They found that for wet crops grown during the rainy season, which consisted chiefly of rice, there was required a depth of water equal to 7 ? feet; and the rainfall in those months was about 15 inches. The late Mr. Login told him that from experiments in the neighbourhood of Roorkee, where the rainfall, although greater during the whole year, namely 43 inches, was about the same as at Umritsur during the dry months, he found that a depth of about 12 inches was required for cereals; and, allowing for the greater heat and dryness of the atmosphere in the Punjab, that seemed to agree...