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and linseed are sown mixed together. Rape ripens first, then 

 sveti-sorse, then ordinary mustard, then musuri, then linseed, 

 then matar, then khesari, wheat, barley, and gram. 



351. In the N.-W. P. and Oudh where land is lighter and 

 generally richer in lime than in Bengal, pulse crops give 

 heavier yield. In the deltaic portion of Bengal pulse crops do 

 not grow well, an excess of ordinary salt in the soil being 

 very injurious to these crops. Well drained land annually 

 renovated with silt produces the best pulse crops in Lower 

 Bengal. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



OIL-SEEDS. 



E principal oil-seed crops of India are, Brassica (rape 

 and mustard), Linum usita tissimum, Sesamum indicum, 

 Eruca sativa (ta"ra"mani) 3 Carthamus tinctorius, Guiz-otia abys- 

 sinica, Ricinus communis, Papaver sornniferum, Arachis hy- 

 pogcea and Gossypium (cotton). The oils of the following 

 trees and plants are also more or less largely employed: Ana- 

 cardium occidentale, Bassia latifolia and other Bassias, Cocos 

 nucifera, Helianthus annuus, Argemone mexicana, Melia 

 azadirachta, Amoora rohituka, and Galedupa indica. 



353. The recognised oil-seed crops of India occupy an 

 area of about 12 million acres of which the Province of 

 Bengal furnishes over 4 million acres, i.e. about 6*45 per cent, 

 of the cultivated area of Bengal. Next to cereals, oil-seed 

 crops occupy the largest area in Bengal. According to the 



