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KUMARI CULTIVATION. 



the Government share, at the rate of 25 per cent., is 12 parahs ; 

 the halance, 48 parahs, goes to the grower. 



" 5. When the crop is supposed to be ready to be cut, the Go- 

 vernment officials proceed to estimate it as it stands on the 

 ground ; considering the localities in which it is grown, their 

 distance from bazaars, &c, it is natural to conclude that the 

 ryot has many circumstances in his favour. 



" 6. In accessible parts of the country, the rising value of tim- 

 ber is likely to lead the Jenmis to put a stop to Ptinam cultivation 

 in many jungles." 



Statement exhibiting the Extent ofPunam Cultivation and the 

 Revenue thereon during the last Five Faslis {Tears). 



P. Grant, Collector. 



Extract Order on the foregoing Papers. 



23<2 May 1860, No. 830. 

 " 1, In this paper Dr Cleghorn replies to the reference made to 

 him in the order of the 1st June 1859, No. 737, on the subject 

 of Kumari cultivation in Canara, and the proper measures to be 

 taking for checking it. The practice referred to is that of felling 

 and burning the timber and jungle on portions of forest, culti- 

 vating the ground for a single year or two years, and then leaving 

 it, to repeat the same process on another spot. It is of course 

 very destructive to timber. It prevails in the jungles of the 



