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of dry food, also 107 Ibs. of leaves which were eaten with 

 avidity by cattle, and 937 cuttings. 



758. Planted 5 feet apart an acre would hold about 

 1,700 plants. If the Sibpur experience is repeated on a large 

 scale, we ought to get over 450 maunds of crude roots and 

 over 210 maunds of green fodder per acre. When it is recol- 

 lected how difficult it is to get green fodder in some parts 

 of India during the driest months, the produce of 240 maunds 

 of green fodder for cattle, which is a mere bye product, 

 seems sufficiently inviting. If the value of the fodder alone 

 is estimated at two annas a maund, we have an outturn of 

 Rs. 30 per acre. Then there is another bye-product in the 

 shape of cuttings or fuel, which would be 175 to 200 maunds 

 per acre, which represents another Rs. 50. 



759. The price of tapioca is six annas a seer in Calcutta. 

 Putting the whole produce of Cassava flour, tapioca-meal, 

 and tapioca at the lowest value of, say, two annas a seer, t, e., 

 Rs. 5 a maund, we can expect a gross produce of Rs. 500 

 per acre from the flour and meal. 



760. Working on a large scale, the produce of flour will 

 come, perhaps, to 50 maunds per acre instead of 100 maunds. 

 The account of produce of Cassava flour given in Dr. Watt's 

 Dictionary is rather conflicting, but as this is the only autho- 

 rity we could lay hold on, we would quote a passage here from 

 his Dictionary : "The produce has been estimated in Ceylon 

 at 10 tons of green roots per acre. This weighs one-fourth 

 when dried, and if the dried roots gave half their weight of 

 flour it would amount to 2,800 Ibs." This means 34 maunds 

 per acre, which, of course, is three times as much as one 

 gets out of an acre of paddy or wheat. 



761. Though Cassava can be planted at any season, and 

 harvested at any season, which is a great advantage looking 

 at the question from the point of view of famine prevention 

 only, the best season for harvesting-, and consequently of 

 replanting of cuttings, is February and March. There is 



