BOMBAY AND I'\M \i: 



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LINUM 



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i i,'ood seasons ripe by !'.!. mars . an. I i- reaped u ill i u sicUle near the ground 

 uprooted. Ii is th, M carrii-d to the t hi cshing-noor and dried, when the seeds 

 readily separate, and are \\ innowed in the usual way. A full crop may be 600 I b. 

 to the acre, hut it is precarious, and often may yield much loss. Linseed may 

 id. -red a delicate crop, which in favourable seasons only is 

 wn with particular success. 



Trade In Hombay. The port town of Bombay drains its supplies from the Supplies 

 /am's Territory, Itombay, the Central Provinces and Merar, Rajputana and dr '''" wi from. 



tra! India, the Tinted Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the Panjab, and Madras. 

 In the returns of trallic carried by rail and river, it is shown that the town of 

 Hombay received in 1!IU-I .">, 4,561,058 cwt. ; in 11)05-6, 2,58(>.4! 4 cwt . : and m 

 I ''in'. 7. l.'.l.'Jii.i .">:} c\\t. The most important contributing single centre is the Chief Centre. 

 Ni/am's Territory. From these supplies are, of course, drawn the Bombay 



Jiorts to foreign countries, and it is thus instructive to note that one-half 

 rom the Nizam's Territory a region \i-ry different from that from 

 which Calculi, -i drains its supplies. 



">. I'ANJAB. Since the time that Baden- Powell wrote his Panjab Product* Panjab. 

 (i . l!'7 ;">o(, .">_'_> .">) and Stewart published his Panjab Plants, a considerable 

 expansion of the area of linseed seems to have taken place. Still, the total area 

 I !(.) c, was only 31,293 acres, the bulk being in Kangra, 12,580 acres ; Gurdas- 

 Sialkot. :{.(!_' I; Ambala, 1,575; Hoshiarpur, 1,927; Gujrat, 1,579; 

 d .Ihclnm, 1,309. In Kashmir there is also a fair area, the plant being 

 tivatod up to about 6,000 feet above the sea (Lawrence, Assess. Rept., 1890, 

 ). The imports into the Panjab of linseed obtained from Kashmir is an im- Kashmir. 

 port ant item in the Trans-frontier trade, and one of increasing value. In 1898-9, 

 these imports wore 20,423 cwt., valued at Rs. 88,952 ; in 1901-2, they had be- 

 me 223,642 cwt., valued at Rs. 15,52,993 ; and in 1903-4 stood at 50,502 cwt., 

 ued at Rs. 3,35,136 ; but in 1906-7 fell to 6,083 cwt., Rs. 41,189. In 1860-3 

 company carried out fairly extensive experiments at Sialkot in order to as- 

 tain if flax could be there produced ; they were apparently unsuccessful, 

 the plant presently grown in that district is entirely for linseed. In Kangra Kangra. 

 seed is thrown among the stubble after cutting the rice and springs up 

 hout any special cultivation ; it is thus a second or supplementary 



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6. HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA AND RAJPUTANA. It is unfortunate that 

 ticulars cannot be ascertained regarding the production in the Native States, 



ce one or two of these, more especially Hyderabad, are important centres 

 production. The only sort of conception that can be obtained regarding 

 . is by a study of the railborne traffic. During the year 1904-5 the Nizam's 

 itory exported 1,226,202 cwt., and in 1906-7, 850,037 cwt. ; Rajputana and 

 tral India, 951,460 and 182,170 cwt. in the same years; these amounts, 

 ing to Bombay, constituted fully one-half of the Bombay supply. 



7. MADRAS, ASSAM AND BURMA. These provinces take so small a share Madras, 

 the Indian linseed traffic that they can be neglected without serious con- 



uences. The reports from the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam were 

 1904-5, 85,746 cwt., and in 1906-7 only 45,893 cwt. ; of Madras still less, 

 iely 50,171 and 31,269 cwt. 



INDIAN TRADE IN LINSEED AND LINSEED OIL. In the pro- 

 cial paragraphs above, mention will be found to have been made of 

 e extent of cultivation and the supply of linseed obtained from the 

 ief producing provinces. It is not necessary to repeat these state- 

 nts, but a good starting-point in a study of the total linseed trade 

 India is naturally to be had in the figures of FOREIGN TRADE. 

 British Gift to Indian Cultivators. FOREIGN EXPORTS. Royle in- First 

 forms us that the first mention of the EXPORTS of linseed from India Exports. 

 occurs in IK'52, when .'3 cwt. were recorded. The very next year the ~ arly 

 exports were 1,583 cwt. ; in 1839, 120,922 cwt. ; and in 1850, 

 560.452 cwt. In 1860-1 the exports from India were 550,700 cwt., 

 valued at Rs. 1,25,57,790 ; in 1880-1, 5,997,172 cwt., valued at 

 Rs. 3,69,81,265 ; in 1900-1, 5,060,189 cwt., valued at Rs. 4,45,60,096 ; in 

 J903-4, 8,616,356 cwt., valued at Rs. 5,74,41,762 ; and in 1904-5 they 



Hyderabad. 



