ON THE STATISTICS OF DUKHUN. 279 
size under the management of a single farmer; the largest 
I recollect meeting with was about 200 acres, but in ge- 
neral they average very considerably less in size. In the 
Poona Collectorate the average size was 29 beegahs*, in 
Ahmednuggur 35 beegahs, in Dharwar 43,8, beegahs, and 
in Khundesh 23,58, beegahs. The average rent of a farm 
in Poona was less than 48 shillings per annum; in Ahmed- 
nuggur about 86 shillings; in Dharwar 64 shillings; and in 
Khandesh, where a good deal of the land cultivated is garden 
land, 74 shillings per annum. In Poona the average rent per 
beegah is within a fraction of two shillings; in Ahmednuggur 
about two shillings and six pence per beegah; in Dharwar 
not quite eighteen pence ; and in Khandesh, where there is 
proportionably a good deal of garden land, it is somewhat 
more than three shillings a beegah. ‘The average for the 
whole of the lands of Dukhun is two shillings and ninepence, 
one-eighth per English acre, or one rupee and fourteen reas 
per Dukhun beegah. 
Proportion of Yoke Cattle to each Farmer.—Generally in 
the population returns there were great omissions of the draft 
or yoke cattle of the cultivators; no very satisfactory state- 
ment can therefore be given of their agricultural means in 
this kind of stock. Inone Talook, or county, of the Dharwar 
_ Collectorate, the yoke cattle were filled in, with the exception 
__ of two or three village returns, and the proportion is only 
__ 1°88 bullocks to each cultivator; but as the ploughs are 3733 
— innumberin the Talook, at two bullocks to a plough, the pro- 
_ portion should be 2°89 bullocks (uearly 3) to a cultivator: the 
_ returns must be defective, for I am satisfied, although a farmer 
_ may not have two bullocks to each of his ploughs, and he has 
es generally a heavy plough and a light one, yet he has always 
_ two bullocks at least for one of his ploughs. 
Inthe Ahmednuggur Collectorate the yoke cattle are not 
distinguished from the pack or carriage cattle, but the whole 
_ amount is very considerable, being 212,008. In the Poona 
_ Collectorate the returns give 24 yoke bullocks to each farmer, 
but the farmers near to the city of Poona are much better off, 
averaging 31 bullocks each. Only a portion of the returns 
ging 2% yap 
_ from Khandesh had the column of draft or yoke cattle filled 
e. Pp; it is impossible, therefore, to give the proportion to each 
farmer for the whole collectorate; but as far as the returns 
_ went, it appeared that each farmer averaged only 1°62 bul- 
locks, not quite 14. 
_ * The Dukhun beegah is three-fourths of an English acre. The rupee is 
valued at two shillings. 
