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" Mr. Elliott, Settlement Officer of Furrukhabad, found 

 that the following were the prevailing rent-rates for good 

 irrigated land in the pergunnah of Kanouj : 



Fully-manured land, close to site, Rs. 10-8 per acre. 



Partially-manured, further from site, Rs. 7-8 per acre. 



Little or never manured land, distant, Rs. 5-4 per acre. 



" Mr. Elliott expressly states that the difference between 

 these rates is due to difference in the supply of manure, 

 and in distance from the village site, and not to difference 

 in natural soil. 



" I may state, as an example of the way in which the 

 rent of land may be enhanced, that some fields which were 

 trenched and manured some four or five years ago at 

 Cawnpore, and which belong to the Municipality, are now 

 rented to Kachies for 40 and 50 rupees an acre, whereas 

 previously they had only fetched 10 and 12 rupees an 

 acre." 



From other parts of India also, statistics are 

 available of the utilization of town-refuse, but the 

 quantity used is only a drop in the ocean when 

 compared with the total annual loss : 



Mr. Halsey reports that town-refuse was highly effica- 

 cious for sugarcane, jowar, sorghum, Indian corn, melons, 

 cabbages, and many other garden crops. 



The Assistant Commissioner of Cotton, East Berar, 

 says that at the Umroota farm, soil, manured with town- 

 refuse, yielded 101 Ibs. of clean Hingunghat cotton per 

 acre, against an outturn of 25 Ibs. from unmanured land. 



The Commissioner in Sind says of this manure that 

 "the gardeners of Sind, who are almost invariably 

 Banians, are well acquainted with its use." 



In Surat, nightsoil, mixed with ashes, has been sold to 



