feeding of bullocks in localities where the seed is used for 

 feeding bullocks, nearly 700,000 tons would be still available 

 for extraction of oil for export and obtaining of oil-cake for 

 cattle food and manure. 100 to 200 Ibs. of clean cotton and 

 300 to 600 Ibs. of seed may be taken as the yield per acre. 

 In Bengal the average yield of cleaned cotton is 100 Ibs. per 

 acre or even less. The most important cotton-growing dis- 

 tricts are: Saran (31,000 acres), Chittagong Hill Tracts 

 (28,000 acres), Cuttack (20,000 acres), Lohardaga (15,000 

 acres), Darbhanga (12,000 acres), Midnapore (10,000 acres), 

 and Manbhum (10,000 acres). The best cotton lands in 

 Bengal are the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Midnapore, Cuttack 

 and Jalpaiguri. These districts are mentioned here as possi- 

 ble centres for a new and important industry. European 

 planters can be first induced to use the oil-cake as cattle food 

 and manure and the use of these substances gradually intro- 

 duced through their means among native cultivators. 



CHAPTER XLII. 



MAHUA (BASSIA I,ATIFOI,IA &C.). 



A S a sugar and fat yielding tree the Bassia Butyracea is 

 of greater value than the common Bassia or mahua tree. 

 This tree which is also called the Indian Butter tree grows in 

 the Sub-Himalayan tract between Kumayun and Bhutan at 

 1,000 to 5,000 ft. above the level of the sea. The pulp of 

 the fruit and teven the cake left after the expression of oil 



