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no accounts, consume a large part of their own pro- 

 duce, and sell the rest in markets which make no 

 statistical returns. The greatest difficulty, however, 

 arises from the extraordinary fluctuations of outturn 

 which take place from year to year in conformity 

 with a very capricious rainfall. To turn to the most 

 trustworthy statistics that we have, namely, the trade 

 movements of export crops, the following figures of 

 net export for two important tracts in the Bombay 

 Presidency will show the large fluctuations which 

 take place from year to year : — 



Net Export of Cotton from 



The large seasonal variations, as shown by the 

 official estimates of the outturn, per acre, may be 

 gathered from the following figures : — 



