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LIVE STOCK 

 Oxen 



EzporU. 



Bombay 



Karachi 

 Exports. 



Oil and 

 Oil Mills. 



Exports. 



coiiliini both, namely the area of cultivation expressed to the 

 average yield. Viewed from any and every standpoint, we 



i hat the lins I of India is grown purely and simply in obedience 



loreiun demand. As already mentioned, the exports from Calcutta 

 arc drawn from the province of Bengal (two-thirds) and from the United 

 Provinces (the remainder) ; Assam and the Central Provinces contributing 

 liet ween them only about 120,000 cwt., out of a total Calcutta supply of 

 lose on 7,000,000 cwt. The exports from Bombay, on the other hand, 

 are drawn from the Nizam's Territory, Rajputana and Central India, the 

 Central Provinces and Berar, and lastly the Bombay Presidency itself, 

 and in the order named. Of the producing provinces (judged of from 

 the railway returns), Bengal heads the list, and is followed by the United 

 Provinces (a good second) ; by the Nizam's Territory (an indifferent 

 third) ; by the Central Provinces and Berar (a very poor fourth) ; then 

 Rajputana and Central India ; Bombay ; next Assam ; and, last of all, 

 ladras. Karachi exports a small amount of Panjab linseed. Seeing 

 it the Central Provinces have so large an area under the crop, their 

 tosition as fourth in exports is a little difficult to understand. The ex- 

 planation is perhaps that the area is shown larger than it should be owing 

 mixed cultivation being estimated as pure. 



Linseed Oil and Oil Mills. It cannot be ascertained how many of 

 ic 99 oil mills, reported to be at work in India, are concerned in the 

 inseed traffic proper. Only one appears to deal exclusively in linseed, 

 imely the Gourepore Company, Ltd., near Calcutta. Their oils and 

 jilcakes are noted all over India. The mill, moreover, produces both 

 riled and unboiled oils. The exports of linseed oil from India are not 

 rery important, nor do they appear to be increasing ; in fact, judged 

 " by the returns from 1899-1900 to 1906-7, they have, if anything, 

 een decreasing. In 1899-1900 they were 248,479 gallons, valued at 

 Is. 4,20,167; in 1903-4, 137,952 gallons, valued at Rs. 3,61,654 ; in 

 1905-6, 186,682 gallons, valued at Rs. 4,57,983 ; and in 1906-7, 114,205 

 illons, valued at Rs. 2,18,926. Nearly the whole of these exports go 

 >m Bengal, and thus to a large extent doubtless embrace the Gourepore 

 impany's transactions. It is also noteworthy that the major portion 

 88 to Australia and New Zealand. As already mentioned (p. 726) 

 ic cake is valued as an article of cattle food when not adulterated with 

 lustard (see pp. 184, 770, 817). 



[Cf. Hurst, Lubricants, Oils, etc., 1896, 155 ; Andes, Veget. Oils and Fats, 1897, 

 S9 ; Livache and Mclntosh, Manuf. of Varnishes, Oils, etc., 1899, 226-46, 251-302; 

 Allen, Comm. Anal., 1899, 12, 94 ; Percival, Comm. Bot., 1900, 163 ; A. Watt, 

 Art of Soap-making, 1901, 28, 130 ; Blyth, Food Compos, and Anal., 1903, 284-5 ; 

 Wri.cht and Mitchell, Oils, Fats, Waxes, etc., 1903, 39, 178 ; Sabin, Ind. and 

 Irt Tech. of Paints and Varnishes, 1905, 39-65.] 



LIVE STOCK OF INDIA. This very large and important sub- Live Stock. 

 ject may be discussed under the following sections : Oxen and Buffaloes ; 

 Sheep and Goats ; Horses, Donkeys, Mules, Camels; and Pigs. 



An analysis of the returns of Live Stock in India during 1905-6 mani- Estimate 

 ests the existence of approximately 198 million head of cattle (cows, of Total. 

 sulls, bullocks, buffaloes, sheep, goats, horses, mules, donkeys, camels, etc.). 

 The actual figures are 30 million bulls and bullocks, 22 million cows ; 

 13 million buffaloes ; 26 million young stock ; 18 million sheep ; 25 

 million goats ; 2 million horses, donkeys, mules ; and 393,308 camels. The 



731 



To Australia. 



Oilcake. 



