Uses. 



Jwdr flour is made into bread, but only eaten by the poorer classes : wheat 

 flour is often adulterated with jwdr flour. The stalks (karbi) 

 are most excellent fodder : they are chopped up with a gardsi 

 and mixed with other green food (grass, leaves, especially of castor-oil plant), j 



Cost of production. 



Injuries. Jivdr is liable to following attacks : 



" Agia" or " makari," a spider, attacks the bud before the flower forms, 

 and no grain is produced ; chiefly due to want of rain. Thuntha attacks the 

 pith in Bhddon; chiefly due to want of rain. " Lassi" also attacks Jwdr in 

 drought. 



The area recorded under this crop in the 

 measurement papers is 162,184 acres. 



In the experiment above noted, after threshing and winnowing, the grain 

 was heaped by the cultivator in the shape of the 

 figure 8, its head towards the Ganges and a sickle 

 (or hoe) and a branch of maddr (akowa) in honour of Madar Shah (of Makan- 

 pur) stuck up in it. All round the heap a line of cowdung was traced and the 

 smoke of a sacrificial fire made to blow upon the heap to keep of the " jinns." 

 One double-handful (lap) was given in honour of Shah Madar, one to the blidt, 

 one to the gangdputr, one to the parohit, and half seer each to the carpenter, 

 the lohdr, the barber, and kahdr, value 4 annas 6 pie. 



Area. 



General. 



