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atingbetween 30,000 and 60,000 acres. According to Mukerji (Handbook Ind. 

 Agri., 1901, 259) it is grown on poor, free, dry, sandy soil. Village refuse is 

 sometimes used as manure, but no irrigation is required. It is sown at the end 

 of July at a rate of 6 to 10 Ib. seed per acre. Harvesting takes placein October 

 and November, andthe outturn of grain amounts to from 300 to 500 Ib . per a ere. 



United Provinces. The area in 1905-6 amounted to 1,792,526 acres 

 in Agra and 372,848 in Oudh. In Agra the largest areas occur in Budaun, 

 200,643 acres ; Agra, 166,787 acres ; Moradabad, 166,014 acres ; Etah, 

 113,936 acres; Allahabad, 95,903 acres; Shahjahanpur, 99,049 acres; 

 Bareli, 87,746 acres. In Oudh, Hardoi, 130,771 acres ; Unao, 59,738 acres ; 

 Sitapur, 47,884 acres ; Lucknow, 36,588, acres, etc. According to Duthie 

 and Fuller it is a kharif crop, sown a little later and reaped a little earlier 

 than judr ; is accordingly a useful substitute when sowing has been delayed 

 through floods or failure of the rains until judr is impossible. It is rarely 

 sown alone, but generally mixed with the same minor crops as are grown 

 with judr, except that mung (PhaseoUis radiatus, Linn.) is usually re- 

 placed by moth (Z*. aconitifoliuft). It generally occupies poor, light 

 soil, and requires less rainfall than judr. It is never manured and rarely 

 irrigated. The land is ploughed one to four times and the seed (mixed 

 Avith that of the subordinate crops) sown at the rate of 2J to 3 seers per 

 acre. There should be at least one weeding. The grain ripens towards 

 November, when the heads are cut off and carried to the threshing-floor. 

 The cost of cultivation is estimated at Rs. 9-8a. per acre, and the outturn 

 varies in different localities from about 5J maunds of grain to 7 maunds, 

 and the outturn of dry fodder about 30 maunds. [Cf. Agri. Ledg., 1895, 

 No. 17,233 ; Nevill, Dist. Gaz. U. Prov. ; Cawnpore Exper. Farm Repts.] 



Central Provinces and Berar. The area in 1905-6 was 40,608 acres 

 in the Central Provinces and 55,188 acres in Berar. In the former : 

 Nimar, 22,146 acres, and Narsinghpur, 11,470 acres ; and in the latter 

 cultivation is almost entirely in Buldana with 46,080 acres. 



Rajputana and Central India. The crop is grown largely in the 

 Native states, especially in Alwar, where in 1905-6 the area was 221,604 

 acres ; Bharatpur, 193,465 acres ; Gwalior, 184,426 acres ; Marwar, 165,692 

 acres ; Jaipur, 79,093 acres ; Mysore, 39,944 acres. In Ajmir-Merwara the 

 area was 32,043 acres. The crop is sown at the same season as barley 

 (June-July), and on dry lands only. The average yield is stated to be 

 1-73 cwt. per acre. [Cf. Watson, Rajputana Dist. Gaz., 1904, i., A., 46, 56.] 



Panjab and North-West Frontier. Bdjra is largely grown in the 

 districts of the Panjab, and in the dry elevated tracts south of Rawalpindi 

 it constitutes the principal kharif crop. In 1905-6 the area was 829,269 

 acres. The largest shares are as follows : Jhelum, 108,684 acres ; Gujrat, 

 103,624 acres ; Rawalpindi, 94,766 acres ; Attock, 68,357 acres ; Gurgaon, 

 66,091 acres ; Hissar, 64,345 acres ; Shahpur, 55,746 acres ; Delhi, 21,016 

 acres ; Rohtak, 13,219 acres. In the North- West Frontier the area was 

 71,355 acres, mainly in Kohat. During the year under review the area 

 seriously declined. In the districts of Hissar, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Delhi 

 and Karnal it fell from 1,135,674 in 1904-5 to 169,116 acres in 1905-6. 

 The average yield for the year 1901-2 was 407 Ib. per acre in the Panjab, 

 402 Ib. in the North- West Frontier. In Dera Ghazi Khan it is the most 

 important Crop, important crop after wheat, and in the Rawalpindi district is the staple 

 of the autumn harvest. It thrives everywhere in the plains at the 

 base of the Salt Range, and in untoward years is usefully replaced by til 



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