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Acreage under Ground-nuts in the Madras Presidency. 
Year, Acres, Year, Acres, 
1882-83 * 568 1890 91 258,313 
1883-84 " ‘ 98,536 1891-92 201,344 
1884-85 ; 145,976 1892-93 226,905 
1885-86 i 161,607 1893-94 247,796 
1886-87 ae pis 153,013 1894-9 226,147 
1887-88 ¥ “ 7 1895-96 243,350 
1888-89 - ae 211,890 1896-97 157,234 
1889-90 i ie 279, 855 1897-98 
The fall in ae subsequent to 1890 is not peculiar to 
Madras, it is observed, too, in the Bombay Presidency, and the 
French Chamber of Con merce at Pondicherry has povoniilsed the 
necessity of investigating roe cog — the decreased imports 
to oper we have caused ¢ ther 
As most of the nuts sent ri "Hakops fréii India are decorticated 
first and Tae from Africa are sent undecorticated, we can recognise 
the effect in the following table of Marseilles imports. In 
pe third column the total imports are calculated as kernels, 
23 per cent ‘e the weight of undecorticated nuts is deducted 
ae the shell. basis of the table is one in the ae Rendus 
de la Chambre de pa ‘ce de Marseille, 1897 and 1898, and the 
proportion of kernel to husk is based on figures uc by Uhlitzsch 
(1.c., p. 388). Simmonds (Z'ropical Agriculture, London, 1877, 
ond 
found to be about 25 per pole 3s To ete re ee cent. to the 
kernel is therefore a liberal allowance. 
Average annual ci dg of Ground-nuts in quintals into Mar- 
l periods a three years. (1 quintal = 110} lbs. or 
approximately 1 cwt.) 
| | 
| | Totalas | Decorticated. 
Years, Undecorticated. | Decorticated. | Average price 
kernels, 4 
per 100 kilos 
francs. 
1877-79 <8 584,782 69,532 519,814 43 
1880-82 tes 627,57 9 316,930 800,166 35 
1883-85 see 398,7! 499,612 806,611 33 
1886-88 124,535 739,408 301 
1889-91 74 1,084,023 1,244,753 28 
1 94 ‘ 336,147 1,010,517 1,269,350 26 
1895-97 we 265,407 464,473 668,336 
898. oes 632, 860 54,660 541 962 iii 
It is true that the export of oil from Madras, &c., has cir 
increased, as the next table below shows, but this i is in no meas 
proportional to the great decrease in exports of nuts. 
