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Chickling Vetch 

 Trade In Lard and Tallow. The foreign traffic in LARD appears to Trade : 



] ,1,-rlininir. Tin / .\ [n 1876-7 were valued at Rs. 3,22,825; in Lard. 



1886-7, Rs. 1,93,823 ; in 1896-7, Rs. 67,900; and for the past five years B * M>rt "- 

 t!i,-v Lav,- l.um : 1902-3, Rs. 52,810 ; 1903-4, Rs. 30,526 ; 1904-5, 

 Ra. 15,500 ; 1905-6, Rs. 18,750 ; and 1906-7, Rs. 15,747. Corresponding 

 with tliis change in the traffic, the /;//</:/< inay be said to manifest an import*. 



ion : in 1899 they were valued at Rs. 26,952 ; in 1900-1 at Rs. 

 - ; ivnd for the past five years have been : 1902-3, Rs. 61,462; 1903-4, 

 i,610 ; 1904-5, Rs. 55,454 ; 1905-6, Rs. 59,536 ; and 1906-7, Rs. 9L'. 

 Tlu> truHir in TALLOW corresponding to the lard just given was as follows : Tallow. 

 POSTS were in 1876-7 valued at Rs. 31,234 ; 1886-7, Rs. 54,097 ; import* 

 7, Rs. 95,574 ; and during the five years ending 1906-7 were valued 

 at Rs. 1,70,721, Rs. 2,17,828, Rs. 1,30,999, Rs. 1,11,255, and Rs. 80,404. 

 Thus it may be said this export traffic is, on the whole, an expansion. The 



ORTS in 1876-7 were valued at Rs. 62,671, and for the past seven import*, 

 years have been : 1900-1, Rs. 3,46,570; 1901-2, Rs. 5,51,976 ; 1902-3, 

 Rs. 3,84,402; 1903-4, Rs. 5,93,127 ; 1904-5, Rs. 6,80,054 ; 1905-6, 

 Rs. 8,16,705 ; and 1906-7, Rs. 9,14,834. 



Nearly the whole of the Lard exported from India goes from Bengal Bengal, 

 to Mauritius. Formerly a fair amount was consigned to Reunion and to 

 the Straits Settlements, but for some years past both these countries 

 have discontinued their demands. India, as shown above, imports lard, 

 and by far the major supply comes from the Straits, and recently from 

 ( 'hina (Hongkong), but Burma may be described as the receiving province. Bunn Demand. 

 Of the total imports in 1903-4, viz. 316,111 Ib. (the largest quantity for 

 the past five years), valued at Rs. 70,610, Burma alone took 303,727 Ib., 

 valued at Rs. 65,203. The returns of the coastwise traffic do not show 

 lard separately from " Other Provisions," so that it is not possible to 

 discover to what extent Bengal or the other provinces of India are com- 

 peting with the Straits for a share in the Burmese market. 



Speaking of the traffic in TALLOW, it is curious that while Bengal is 

 the province most concerned in lard, the tallow traffic is concentrated 

 chiefly in Bombay. The foreign EXPORTS in 1906-7 were 4,135 cwt., Bombay, 

 valued at Rs. 80,404, of which Bombay exported 3,517 cwt., valued at 

 Rs. 69,601. Of the receiving countries, Arabia seems to manifest the 

 most constant demand, taking 2,260 cwt. out of the total. IMPORTS. A 

 curious feature of the tallow traffic may now be mentioned, namely 

 that Bombay, followed by Burma, takes by far the largest share of 

 the foreign supply. During 1906-7 India imported tallow to the extent Large import*, 

 of 36,837 cwt., valued at Rs. 9,14,834, and of these amounts Bombay 

 took 23,325 cwt., Burma 6,433 cwt. The countries of supply were the 

 United Kingdom, 19,604 cwt., and Belgium, 6,288 cwt. There is no 

 mention of re-exports, so that India would appear to be by no means 

 self-supporting in its lard and tallow supplies. [C/. Hurst, Lubric. Otis, 

 Fats, etc., 1896, 180 ; also Soaps, 1898, 119-20 ; Blyth, Food Compos, 

 and Anal, 1903, 310-6 ; Leach, Food Inspect, and Anal., 1905, 451-6).] 



LATHYRUS SATIVUS, Linn.; Fl. Br. Ind., ii., 179-80; D.E.P., 

 Duthie and Fuller, Fidd and Garden Crops, 1883, ii., 15, t. 32 ; Church, 6 ' 

 Food-Grains of Ind., 132, t. 24 ; Rec. Bot. Surv. 2nd., i., 41, 151 ; ii., 48, V etch 

 96 ; iii., 192 ; Duthie, Fl. Upper Gang. Plain, 260 ; Cooke, Fl Pres. 

 Bomb., 1903, i., 360 ; LEQUMINOS.E. The Chickling- Vetch, khesdri, latri, 



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