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&c. &c. A shilling a day, or i a rupee, is the pay of a bricklayer or 

 carpenter ; men to look after 2 horses receive 14 shillings, or 7 rupees 

 a month, cowherds 4 or 5 shillings, and all other labour in proportion. 

 These advantages, coupled with those presented by a ready and ever 

 demanding market for such articles of produce as wheat, barley, (oats 

 if raised), clover, hay (of which article an immense quantity would be 

 consumed in Ootacamimd if it was procurable), turnips, potatoes 

 (Ceylon offering a very favourable market for this vegetable), butter, 

 eggs, and stock of all descriptions, both for butcher's meat and for salt- 

 ing for ship use, would surely, it is to be supposed, tempt many indi- 

 gent farmers to this hilly region, whose necessities impel them to 

 emigrate from the mother-country, but whose steps are stayed by the 

 warnings uttered by the many hundreds of their unfortunate fellow- 

 countrymen, who have hurried heedlessly out to the Australian colo- 

 nies, only to meet with disappointment and ruin. 



Should circumstances ever induce Grovernment to establish a Farm 

 on these Hills, for the purpose of encouraging the growth and extend- 

 ing the cultivation of wheat and barley, I should recommend two sites 

 for its location ; one on the elevated tract of land to the westward of 

 the Pykara river, commencing at the north-west angle of the plateau 

 near Neddiwuttum, and extending southward to " Makoorty peak," 

 the whole of which may be said to be uninhabited, there being only 7 

 small Todar munds situated in it, and these not all occupied, while the 

 soil is for the most part excellent, pasturage abundant, and the land 

 covered, in many parts, with fine forest, rendering the tract (which 

 contains about 12,000 acres) admirably adapted for the purpose which 

 I venture to suggest. 



The other site is, a fine tract of land forming a sort of promon- 

 tory in the north-east angle of the plateau of the Hills called 

 " Kodenaad," which is equally uninhabited, having only 3 occupied 

 Todar munds within its limits ; the soil good, and forest abundant, 

 many fine-wooded valleys extending through it, and offering a most 

 eligible locality for a farm. The tract contains about 7,000 acres. 



The other grain productions of the Neilgherries are, ragghee, samee, 

 korallie, tenney, buttacudaley (a kind of pea), shanungee (a kind of 

 gram), garlic, onions kudagoo (mustard seed), vendium, opium and 

 potatoes. Almost all the grains enumerated are raised solely for home 

 consumption — and, excepting korallie, for which about 1,200 velhuns 

 of land are cultivated yearly, the quantity of each which is produced is 

 insignificant. 



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