MANUAL OF THE nIlAGIR! DISTRICT. 



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The weeding is done by women and children and very clean ciT. XXVII. 

 the fields are kept. Some twenty women form line, using a ^^.^;;;;^^^^^^^ 

 small adze-shaped hoe for digging out weeds.^ 



The number of acres under each crop in Fasli 

 reported to have been — 



Raggi 



Korali 



Same 



Wheat 



Barley 



Other food-grains 



Potatoes 



Horse-gram 



ACRES. 



3,430 



15,728 



4,662 



3,199 



3,761 



588 



754 



67 



Mustard 

 Vendiem 

 Poppy 

 Vegetables 

 Other crops 



Total 



1285 (1876) is Weeding. 



Acres under 

 each crop. 



ACRES. 



355 

 144 

 66 

 189 

 394 



. 33,317 



The cost 2 of ploughing, sowing, weeding, reaping and thrashing Cost 

 an ordinary grain crop is as follows : — 



cultivation. 



Six ploughings at 8 As, each 



Cost of seed, 67 lb., at 1 Re. per 30 lb. 



Sowing 



Rent of land ... 

 Weeding 

 Reaping 

 Thrashing 



Total 



13 8 



Crop at 30 lb. per rupee 



11 Rs. 3 As. 

 1 ton of straw at 10 rupees. 



336 lb. or 



21 3 



1 Two weedings take place before harvest, at intervals of six weeks. — Ed. 

 ' With every respect to General Morgan's great experience I would estimate as 

 follows for, say, a one-acre field of raggi : — 



5 ploughings at 8 annas 



60 lb. of seeds 



Dressing and sowing 



2 weedings 



20 headloads of manure 



Heaping and thrashing 



Assessment of land 



Proceeds — 



Grain, 4 cwts. 

 15 bundles straw 



Total 



Profit 



Major Ouchtcilony's estimate of charges is absurdly low.— Ed. 



