If sown round a field of an acre square the yield will be ten bundles or 30 

 seers fibre. In a whole field about ten maunds ; 

 ten mannds of seed per acre are also got. 



The fibre is used for ropes. The seeds are boiled 

 and given as food to cattle. The stalks are burnt. 

 Price. About ten seers the rupee. 



The area recorded under this crop in the measure- 

 ment papers is 1,469 acres. 



Outturn. 



Uses. 



Area. 



General. 



A bundle of fibre is called " lachhe." If short stalks remain in fibre 

 it is called arjhd (tangled). If then cleaned it is 

 called tilohrd. 



Patsan is sown round cotton, cane, or indigo fields, never thick. Its 

 fibre is not threshed but rubbed out with the hand, and takes longer to separate 

 than that of " san." It comes clean off the stalks, and is called tilohra. 



If sown round an acre will give 50 bundles of plant, each bundle giving 

 2 seers fibre. Fibre is best nearest the ground, to which the plant is cut close. 

 Its price is 12 seers the rupee. 



The fibre is coarse and dark, but good for well ropes and gunny bags. 



