c Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
of acy and ae se the pal jaggery ee i is suggested that 
chlorine dete ns of ju ould giv indication of the 
dteaing qualities = pe juices. ¢ examined and "0k poy ae of jaggeries 
one is likely to get from such juic 
ayo new gia affecting Pe yreping quality of gul or 
rude 8 ar.—By T. 8. Sw 
aaah a -important for Ania of gul during the mons 
The ‘ome ee supposed chiefly to affect the acd aas | is the 
ripeness of the can 
The new aes which are equally or even more important, as ob- 
served by the author in age connanet wont, emanate from the pre- 
sence of alkaline salts e water used for nen and in the soil 
producing the g =: The ese ro ais er into t the mposition of the gul 
and adversely affect the ep ros are found in 4pssothe proportions in 
br: wa water and some kinds o 
e is also a belief in the locality to the above effect though rather 
va, 
"Bofor re undertaking the investigation attempts were ris ~ improve 
the defect in the gul, peculiar to the conditions stated, the lines 
aha known on ae sc but little success was se by the 
uthor, 
There is ample proof to show that alkaliie salts exist in greater or 
smaller A each ian gul. 
or the reasons and proofs given, the author is led to the conclusion 
that water be so ar — an important bearing on the question. 
e remarks e Agricultural Chemist on the quesle sent for 
analysis are fain cor been i of the iene s observations. 
A study of the conditions under which water of —_ — 
creeks is utilized for crop production in Konka 
Ws sh GOKHALE. 
A practice of using the water of saline tidal os ~~ oe to the 
notice of the writer, the results of whose study of the ditions under 
which it is done are embodied i in the pou Ales briet description < of 
der observation ci 
side lands, the several factors which have been found to determine = 
successful cultivation of certain crops with saline poe are discussed. 
e figures of analysis of the samples oie ater taken at each water- 
ing given to a crop of Brinjal cultivated with the exclusive use of water 
from one of the large tidal creeks have been given; these show that in 
i ion a of the cree e 
January and February, the salinity increases to nearly 850 parts of total 
salts per 100,000 parts, out of which 650 parts are sodium Giiethiess 
Wort ebru aters 
oe too saline oaching a total salt content at cheek: of. a — 
or near. i abicgartoenrthe-s of the salinity of the average sea-water, and a 
not asod ces sed — thereaf 
of the several la arge and Sopot creeks as represe 
ted ey t the mena F districts of = shores it is to be observed that it is mae 
to the last 8 10 mile sect: t the sweet water a of a 25 to 35 mile 
length of a tidal pest ser that the cultivation of certain ¢ — is found to be 
being t cree ters in these sections are said to 
be less saline rotranrad in the lower sections towards the sea, pate it is in these 
