( 61 ) 



(gareri) by a hired man, paid one and a quarter anna and a seer of rdb 

 per diem. The material (gMn) is carried to the mill, pressed, and the juice 

 exudes through a hole below into a nund fixed in the ground. Two ndnds 

 will be filled from ten bundles : when the ndnds are full the mill is stop- 

 ped, the juice put in the boiler and boiled till midnight, tended by four 

 men, whilst a hired man feeds the fire from outside. When sufficiently 

 boiled the juice is taken out with a spoon (dohra) and put into earthen pots 

 (kunddn), in which it is stirred with hoes till it coagulates, when it is broken 

 into twenty-seven or twenty-eight lumps (l/ielis). The remaining ten bundles 

 will be treated in the same way next morning, and so on till the field is cut. 

 When the boiler is taken off at midnight they will put in the juice obtained by 

 pouring water on the pressed slips (khoi) and allowing it to trickle into a 

 ndnd from a slanting chabulra, the juice being often twice poured over cane. 

 In two experiments I have made the outturn has been under 10 maunds 

 (gur) per acre, but in one 33 maunds 28 seers were obtain- 

 ed. I look upon 320 bundles giving 20 maunds gur as a 

 fair average outturn that may in ordinary years under favourable circumstan- 

 ces be expected. In addition four maunds a rab" will be got. There is besides 

 the produce of the castor-oil plant and the hemp, and till Jeth melons are often 

 grown in the cane field, producing about ten rupees' worth of fruit (the stalks 

 are dug in for manure). 



It is hardly necessary to describe the uses 



Uses. . ' 



to wich sugar is put. 



Manufacturiog process. This \ have described above. I may here describe 



the mill. 



The kolM or mill consists of the following pieces: 



The mill itself, or kolliu, is made of labul, tamarind or riris, and costs 

 Us. 4 to Rs. 6. Round the top a frame of babul is bound (bunnd) by a wattle 

 of arhar stalks plastered with mud. The spout from which the juice runs is 

 called patokhd. 



Rs. a. p. 



The upright or jdt (in Malnpuri Ldf) costs ... 100 



The boom or hdnlar ( Pdth) ... ... 200 



The outer upright, ) , . . ,, , 



parallel to jdt j r ' ena < MaMam) 080 



The wood that joints | .,. , 



j* and KM at the top } or *"' < Chuyaor btleya) ... 004 



are of babul, the whole costing about Rs. 10, lasting about three years, and 

 being the common property of from four to five men. 



Gur sells for the cultivator at from 10 to 14 seers the 

 jtrice. 



rupee according to quality ; early pressings fetch more. 



