104 THE CHIEF CULTIVATION^ 



pleasant. The season of the rains is cold, (seldom 

 that close disagreeable feel of Bengal,) breaking up 

 about 20th or 25th September. 



2nd and 3rd. The leases of land are in few in- 

 stances to a large amount. The highest number 

 from 35, or 40,000, down to 100 or less ; but there 

 are not above six or eight large Malgoozars, (revenue 

 farmers). The villages are separately let, in general 

 to single tenants, who do as they please in letting 

 out fields to the Ryots : there are no proprietory 

 farmers, or zemindars, all are lease-holders now, for 

 twenty years from 1836. 



4th and 5th. The cultivation is chiefly in wheat 

 and gram. A good deal of cotton is grown towards 

 Nursingpore. Poor lands are used for pasture, and 

 also the hilly tracts south : no Guinea grass or 

 Clover has been tried. Lucern grows well here, 

 and also the common, " Gooneree," " Kaeel," " Moo- 

 cheil," " Doobh," " Puruwaie," " Sookul or Lum- 

 pa," " Kans," and " Burro." The four first are 

 adapted to grazing, and the four last for chaffering. 

 Kaeel and Moocheil are the best for cattle, and fetch 

 the higher prices as hay. Gooneree, when fresh, 

 is very good, not so dry. Doobh for horses. I can 

 hardly fancy finer grass than the Kaeel and Moocheil. 



