134 PRODUCTIVE QUALITIES OF SUGAR-CANE. 



The white Teel being of much more value 

 as an article of commerce, it would, I think, be 

 worth trying in this district. The difference of 

 freight alone between this part of Bengal and the 

 Upper Provinces to Calcutta, would give a hand- 

 some profit, and without costing the cultivator 

 more than he at present lays out in the growth of 

 an inferior kind. 



Remarks on No. 6. The quantity of Sugar ob- 

 tained from a bega* of the Dacca cane, (7 maunds, 

 or 560 Ibs.) appears to me small ; the plants are how- 

 ever very poor, although the adjoining districts of 

 Fureedpore and Mymunsing produce, I believe, the 

 finest within a circuit of many miles. The two 

 kinds most esteemed in the above districts, are the 

 Kajlees and Dhol Sindooree ; the former of a black 

 or very deep purple colour, the latter a pink. There 

 is a patch of these kinds in the Dacca garden, and 

 they appear to have the advantage over the Otaheite 

 and Munnipore, in not throwing out shoots, from 

 the joints, whilst growing. 



* There are two, if not three, begahs in use in the Dacca district, viz. 

 one of 100 cubits square, equal to 2 roods, 2 perches and 179J feet ; the 

 second, as laid down by Mr. Dearman, in this paper and is 80 x 80 cubits ; 

 the third is 100x80 cubits. H. H. S. 



