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come branchy and thin, yielding a 
poor watery juice ; and to this they 
are sometimes liable. 
3. The worm is another evil 
which generally visits them every 
few years: a beetle deposits its egg 
in the young cane. ‘The grubs of 
these remain in the plant, living on 
its medullary parts, till they are 
metamorphosed into the pupa state. 
Sometimes this evil is so great, as to 
injure a sixth or an eighth part of a 
field ; but what is worse, the disease 
is commonly general where it hap- 
pens, few fields escaping. 
4. The flower is the last accident 
they reckon upon, although = it 
scarcely deserves the name; for it 
rarely happens, and never but to a 
very small portion of some few 
fields. 
Those canes that flower have very 
little juice left, and it is by no 
means so sweet as the rest. 
The lands occupied with the su- 
gar cane in the zemindaries of Ped- 
dapore and Pettapore, exclusive of 
those islands formed by the mouths 
of the Godavery, amount to five 
hundred and fifty vissums, or eleven 
hundred acres, and their annual 
produce is forty-four hundred 
weight per acre: their whole pro- 
duce will, therefore, be twenty-se- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1803. 
ven hundred hogsheads, of eighteen: | 
hundred weight each, or about one 
fourth part of the produce of the 
island of Jamaica. It is acknow- 
ledged by all, that this quantity 
might be increased to any extent,, 
with advantage to the zemindar, the 
farmer, and government. This ob- 
servation applies with double force 
to the. upper provinces on the. 
Ganges, as far as Rohileund, where 
the sugar lands are of indefinite ex- 
tent, and where, with a culture infi- 
nitely less perfeét than that above 
described, great quantities of sugar 
and jagary are already made by ais 
natives. 
All that seems necessary in thie 
immense tra¢ts, is to open a market. 
to the ryut, and secure to him a 
striét agreement to his lease with: 
the zemindar. 
Transgressions in this point are 
the great bar to Indian husbandry ; 
for, in a good season, the zemindar. 
raises his demands, and makes the 
farmers of all denominations pay, 
probably, a fourth more than the 
rent agreed on. Custom has ren- 
dered this iniquity common, and 
the farmer has no idea of obtaining} 
redress of an evil, which to him aps 
pears as irremediable as the ravages 
of the elements. | 
USEFUL 
