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beegas cultivated in the Zillah, but this year the 

 whole cultivation is said to be less than three bee- 

 gas ! ! The famous order of the Court reimposing 

 the begoti, is the cause of this. Remark all sudden 

 changes are bad ! 



Silk. The culture of the mulberry, and the in- 

 troduction of the art of rearing silk worms through 

 Gujerat, I offered to government to undertake about 

 three years since, and so far as I have gone, success 

 has been ample, and most encouraging. But the 

 allowances granted (Rs. 76 : 8 : 0) are so small, that 

 the scale on which my experiment has been con- 

 ducted has been very limited. The thing, however, 

 has taken root, and tree after tree is being planted 

 by the Ryots, so that some fifty years hence, Guje- 

 rat may be able to export silk. 



Very little cotton is produced in this Zilla, and 

 none of it is grown as an annual, but as a perennial, 

 although the species is the same as that cultivated 

 at Baroach. The difference in the nature of the two 

 soils is the cause of this. Our soil is well adapted to 

 the black seed cottons ; and from experiments con- 

 ducted here during three years, I find that by 

 proper management, a very superior cotton may 

 be produced, under proper training; neither will 



