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obtain the necessary manure from the city, whence it is 

 generally brought in sacks by buffaloes or bullocks, and 

 deposited on the fields at the end of the rains, just before 

 the potatoes are planted. The bullock-loads were counted 

 in a very large number of fields during one season. The 

 number per acre was seldom less than 400, never less than 

 300, and often much in excess of 400. Assuming that 

 the number of the loads per acre, is on an aver age 350, the 

 amount of manure required for 1,312 acres is reckoned, 

 in bullock-loads, 350 x 1,312=469,200. The manure 

 deposited can hardly have been less than 400,000 loads. 



" A different rent is charged for land to which manure is 

 accessible, and for land to which it is not accessible. The 

 land close to the village site, which is frequented by the 

 villagers for purposes of nature, is rented at three times 

 the rate at which land near the boundary of the villages 

 is rented, and land which is out of the reach of such 

 adventitious manure. For manured land round village 

 sites, Kachies generally pay from 15 to 20 rupees an acre. 



" Now, at Furrukhabad there is a well-marked rise in 

 the rates as the city is approached, which rise is due to 

 the supply of manure and the presence of Kachies. The 

 rates spring from 5 and G rupees an acre * outside the 

 manure line, to 10 and 12 rupees within it. Within the 

 city, where manure is most abundant and accessible, they 

 rise to 20 rupees, and in a limited number of fields lying 

 on either side of a drain from which liquid sewage is 

 baled out on the land, they rise to 30 and 40 rupees an 

 acre. The difference between the rental calculated at 

 manured rates and at ordinary rates, in and around the city, 

 cannot be less than 40,000 rupees. That this estimate is 

 not an improbable one, may be proved by a similar 

 calculation for one of the district pergunnahs. 

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