CHAPTER XXXI X. 



POPPY (PAPAV^R SOMNIFERUM). 



A FTER extraction of opium from the poppy capsules, the 

 ripe seed loses its bitter and narcotic principles, and 

 it is then a wholesome article of diet. Poppy seed is largely 

 consumed. Even after the extraction of oil, the residue 

 or oil-cake is eaten by poor people. Poppy seed-cake is 

 richer in phosphates than other cakes. The oil is ex- 

 tracted by pressing with the ordinary ghani and it is 

 clarified simply by exposure in shallow vessels to the 

 sun. Poppy oil is used in Europe for making candles, soap, 

 paint and artists' colours. The average produce of seed 

 per acre is 3 mnds. and the yield of oil about 13 .srs. per 

 maund. One and a half srs. of seed are sown per acre. The 

 seed sown in Malwa is imported from Persia. 



391. The cultivation of poppy, which is mainly a drug 

 crop, will be dealt with in a connection with Opium. As 

 by law the cultivation of this crop is restricted, the subject is 

 of no general interest to the cultivator. 



CHAPTER XL. 



COCOA-NUT (COCOS NUCIFERA). 



A LTHOUGH in the ordinary sense cocoa-nut cannot be 



regarded as a crop, yet cocoa-nut oil is so extensively 



used in India, and so largely exported, that it should find a 



