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a dry one, when he knows that many grains will not 

 germinate ; and more is sown in light, undulating, than 

 in rich flat soil. But this rate, as a general average, 

 is accepted by the people, and agrees with my experiments. 

 The average number of grains of Kutia and Jelalia 

 wheat to a rupee is 235, and at this rate 752,000 grains 

 are sown in an acre, and 6^1 in four square yards. 

 I made a great number of experiments on plots of this 

 size in different parts of the district, and found that the 

 average number of stools is 160, and of ears 339. Thus, 

 of four grains sown, only one comes up, and throws out 

 only two ears an inability to tiller which seems to me 

 the chief fault of our wheat. The average length of 

 straw is only 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches. The average 

 produce is a point very keenly debated, but the best 

 native judges are now inclined to put it at fivefold, 

 which, after making allowance for the loss by reaping, 

 gleaning, and treading-out, corresponds to a produce of 

 sixfold i.e., six maunds, or eight and a half bushels, to 

 the acre. This is the general average I have assumed 

 after much careful enquiry. The common cultivators 

 talk of three and fourfold, but I know by experiment 

 how miserably poor a field must be to produce only three 

 fold. On the other hand, ten and twelvefold are not 

 uncommon, and in six places where I cut a biswa in 

 March 1865, I got from fourteen to seventeen-fold. One 

 amusing case happened in a village Gurrolie, which I 

 visited when the wheat was young ; a cultivator expostu- 

 lated against my average rent-rates, asserting that his 

 field would only produce threefold* I offered to give 

 him the price of every seer below fivefold if he would 

 give me the same for every seer above, but he declined 

 the bargain. I reaped his field for him. The produce 



