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Thus in Jessore district alone there are over five million date 

 palms yielding sugar. This total includes old and young trees, 

 as well as those in full bearing. 



As we shall see later (p. 351) 21 J Ibs. of gur may be looked upon 

 as an average annual yield per tree. Hence the total annual produc- 

 tion of date palm gur in Jessore district alone must be somewhere 

 about 50,000 tons. This fairly well corresponds to the estimate of 

 61,500 tons made by N. N. Banerjee. 1 



I have been able to find some old figures 2 shewing the number 

 of date trees used for sugar making, in each of the districts of Bengal 

 in 1848. I am indebted to Mr. S. G. Hart, Director of Agriculture, 

 Eastern Bengal and Assam, for corresponding figures for certain of the 

 same districts in 1911. The figures are given below for comparison. 



1 N. N. Banerjee. The Date Sugar Palm Quarterly Journal, Bengal Agricultural De- 

 partment, January 1908, pp. 161-2. 



2 Published by authority of Government. See Bengal Sugar Planter, Robinson, 1849, 

 Appendix A. 



8 Only these were actually enumerated for 1911. 



