QUALITY AND COS'’ OF HEMP IN THE HIMALAYAS. 829 
country. In the ‘Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, 
(vol. i, p. 45), may be observed a memorandum by the late Lord Auckland, 
when Governor-General of India, in which it is stated: 
Prime cost of Hemp at Deyra, Rs. 54 per ton ai 5 - £5 8 0 
Carriage to Calcutta (about 1000 miles), Rs. 24 per ton . 28 0 
Total cost and charges of Hemp at Calcutta . . £716 0 
Prime cost of Hemp seed at Deyra, Rs. 36 per ton. . »- 812 0 
Carriage to Calcutta, Rs, 24 per ton . F ‘ ‘ . 2 8 0 
£6 0 0 
Though the above are deduced from the rates at which the natives sell 
Hemp and Hemp seed among themselves, large quantities could not be 
obtained at the above prices, for the natives would not extend their crop, or 
take much trouble in preparing it for market, unless some greater induce- 
ments were held out to them. Others, therefore, have calculated that the 
price of the Hemp might be doubled to the natives, and that one rupee more 
should be given for their bringing it down to the foot of the hills, whence it 
could be readily conveyed to the Ganges, either from Kemaon or Gurhwal, 
or from Sirmore to the Jumna, and from the Kangra Hills to the Sutlej. 
Therefore Capt. Kirke calculated the cost of 500 maunds of Hemp from 
Deyra Doon, a valley within the Himalayas, to be about Rs. 2500; carriage 
on bullocks to the Ganges (but carts have been much introduced since 
then), Rs. 125; 2600 maund boat from Sookertal, Rs. 130; together Rs. 2755 ; 
this, with the addition of ten per cent. for contingencies, making the total cost 
to Calcutta, Rs. 3030 for 500 maunds of Hemp,-.or for something more than 
seventeen tons, or about £17 14s. a ton in Caleutta. 
Capt. Kirke’s memorandum further states that 22% feet of the fine sail- 
cloth which he forwarded could be bought for 95 annas; 223 feet of the 
coarse sackcloth for six annas; 20 seers of the rough Hemp for one rupee; 
and 29 seers of the Hemp seed for one rupee. 
Major Corbett gives three calculations of the cost of Hemp from the dis- 
trict of Kemaon to Calcutta, all expenses included : 
From Kotedwarra, 37 tons, £661—£17 17 per ton. 
» Chilkeea . 5 . » 131 =, 
» Sunea . . 4 . 14 =, 
He also sent some Hemp cloth or canvas made in the Hills, which was 
7+ yards long, and 224 inches wide, of which the price was one rupee. 
The above facts being sufficiently favorable, both respecting 
the quality and the cost of the Himalayan Hemp, and the 
Author having been informed by good practical judges that the 
best plan to make the peculiar qualities of any of these Indian 
fibres known to manufacturers here would be to have a few 
tons of each sent into the market for two or three years, he 
was induced to recommend that this should be done with the 
Himalayan Hemp. 
“ As it is quite practicable to give an impulse to the growth 
of Hemp in the Himalayas, and as the price is so moderate and 
