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PREFACE. 



THE following memorandum pretends to no scientific accuracy, 

 nor is its intention to put forward any suggestions for the improve- 

 ment of agriculture in this district : this being a matter to be settled 

 by the collation of facts from every district, rather than by ex- 

 perience only over a limited area. The memorandum merely sets 

 forth what has been ascertained by constant enquiry, checked by 

 experiment, during tbe progress of settlement, and is based on 

 results carefully tabulated and analyzed. The system to which 

 these results are due was instituted by Mr. Buck when settlement 

 officer of this district, and carried on by me on his transfer to the 

 office he now holds. I am greatly indebted to him for the privilege 

 of using the statistics he has collected and tabulated, and for his 

 kindness in giving the benefit of careful supervision to these 

 roughly-strung-together notes. 



CAWNPORE, ) 



> F. N. WRIGHT. 



The IZth June, 1877. ) 



