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(10) Clothing. — Their clothing expenses are estimated to be 

 Rs. 10 6 annas — Rs. 5 6 annas for men and Rs. 5 for women 

 — using one-third English and two-thirds country cloth in their 

 clothes. 



(n) General Remarks. — Cotton-thread is not manufactured at 

 home. They have no animal in milk. 



II. Tahsil Kasganj, Mauza Abhaipura ; family of Baley ; 

 carpenter ; age forty years. 



(1) Occupation. — Two of the members of his family follow 

 their trade, but occasionally cultivate, as do the other 

 members. 



(2) Wages. — As carpenters they chiefly occupy themselves 

 in making agricultural implements. They work on forty 

 ploughs of their own village, ten of Mauza Allipur, and four 

 of Nagla Pokhni, total fifty-four ; and for their wages they 

 receive 20 seers of grain of low quality (such as gram, barley, 

 arhar, masina, etc.) per plough. This 20 seers of grain they 

 get in three portions — 1£ seers at the time of the sowing of 

 crops, 6f and 12 seers respectively when kharif and rabi crops 

 are reaped. For ordinary carpenter's work, which they do 

 only when they have no agricultural implement to make or 

 repair, they get 3 annas per diem. 



(3) Cultivating Holding. — The area under cultivation of the 

 cultivating members of the family is as follows : 



Name of Mauza. 



Abhaipura 

 Jatan Asogpur ... 



(4) Crops. — Last year their kharif and rabi crops were as 

 detailed below : 



Kharif. 



Name of Crop. 



Mauza Abhaipura — 

 Cotton 



Bajra and masina 

 Maize 

 Bajra 



Mauza Jatan Asogpur — 



Bajra and masina ... 2 12 ... 5 25 ... 900 



Total of kharif crops 9 13 15 35 27 8 o 



