[ '96 ] 



Oil-cake @ i rnaun^ per bullock per 



month, @ Re. 1/8 per maund ... 3,oop 



Rent ... ... ... ... ... 1,200 



Other expenses ... ,, 800 



Rs. 20,000 

 /. e. Rs. 50 per acre. 



246. By ordinary farming, i. e., by cultivating rice and 

 pulses, with hired labour, a capitalist cannot expert to make 

 farming pay in this country. One gets about 15 maunds of 

 paddy and 10 maunds of pulses per acre, which sold at Rs. 2 

 a maund yields only Rs. 50 per acre. By judicious cropping 

 two crops can be taken every year out of the land, or one 

 crop of double value, such as sugarcane, tobacco &c., or a 

 crop which costs much less in cultivating, as jute, pulses &c. 

 But the average outturn per acre from mixed farming may 

 be safely put down at Rs. 50 and the cost also at Rs. 50. 

 Ordinary farming therefore just keeps the cultivators who 

 are their own field labourers, and it pays them no better than 



c s^rvicei as coolie. 



247. It is only by growing special crops, such as sugar- 

 cane &c., that a capitalist or a gentleman-farmer may hope 

 to make farming pay. But it is never safe to rely on one 

 crop only and it is best to choose 4 or 5 paying crops, and 

 grow these in rotation, though the cost of growing such crops 

 is greater. An acre of sugarcane will cost about Rs. 150 

 growing, but the gur from it is worth Rs. 200. What each 

 crop costs and what outturn we may expe6l from it, is a 

 (Jiiestion which we will discuss in the next Part of the Hand 

 book. 



