i)6 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS. 



lands, the Budowy and Rubbee crops are taken alter- 

 nately. After cutting the Budowy crops, Gram 

 and Peas are often sown. Indigo is cultivated to the 

 extent of about 1500 maunds. Cotton is not culti- 

 vated ; it would be desirable to make the experi- 

 ment. Sugar-cane is cultivated to the extent of 

 about 431,446 maunds, the produce of 57,932 acres 

 actually under cultivation. 



There is no such marked peculiarity in the soil as 

 to require any particular specification, Sugar-cane, 

 Opium and Tobacco generally devoted to Budowy. 



Foreign Cotton has not been tried. The Otaheite 

 cane to a small extent was introduced last year, and 

 appears to flourish ; but it remains to be tried what 

 produce it will yield.* 



As long as the Zemindar can get what will repay 

 the labour, he will generally cultivate the land ; few 

 of them being wealthy enough to allow their lands 

 to lie fallow. 



Manuring is used to a very small extent, and con- 

 sists usually of burnt weeds, and the refuse collected 

 from the village dung-hills. Sheep are occasionally 

 penned in the fields, but the supply from this source 



* It has since been cultivated more extensively. II. II. S. 



