414 Roree in Khypoor. [No. 113. 



Oodoo, the proprietor of the mills I am describing, is the principal oil- 

 maker in Roree, and has two mills worked by camels and bullocks, and 

 three servants for each mill. He is a bunneah ; and the produce of a 

 naree of oil seed is carried away in an earthen receiver as soon as expressed 

 to his shop for sale. He lets out his mill on hire by the day, or to press 

 any quantity of oil, at the following rates, which include the services of 

 domestics and camels. 



Hs. As 



For pressing a naree of mustard seed (surshuf,)* 2 



Hire of mill per diem for ditto, 8 



For pressing a naree of linseed, f khus grass, and safllowers, .... 2§ 



Hire of mill per diem for ditto, , 10 



For pressing a naree of cocoanuts, 3 



Hire of mill per diem for ditto, , 12 



The cost of feeding a camel and a bullock in the town of Roree is the 

 same or about 3| rupees a month, but a camel is more easily nourished in 

 the jungle about Roree which does not produce grass and herbage for cat- 

 tle. The oilman assigned another reason fol prefering the camel, that 

 he could, when not employed in the mill, make him more generally use- 

 ful than a bullock, in bringing oil seed, grain, and fodder from the coun- 

 try. 



Oil seed is measured with a pinkee, a wooden measure of fourteen % 

 anas weight, and ten pinkees go to a naree of nine seers. 



By far the largest quantity of oil comsumed in Khyrpoor is obtained 

 from mustard seed (surshuf J. But the following are also subject to 

 pressure, linseed § (koonjuck), khus safflowers (puwaree), and cocoa- 

 nuts. Twelve seers of the best linseed yield half the quantity of oil.|| 

 The average return is from four to six seers and never less than a 

 fourth. A small quantity not exceeding one or two seers is extracted at 

 a time for medicinal purposes. The seed sell at 5 Rs. the mun of 40 

 seers, and oil at 32 Rs. the mun. 



Khus seed sells at 4 Rs. the mun, and oil at 13 Rs. the mun. Ten seers 

 of seed yield from 2| to 3£ seers of oil. 



* Sinapis dichotoma. Roxb. 

 + Andropogon muricatum. 



$ The ana is a weight equal to 6 shorabee rupees or the sixteenth part of a seer. 

 § Linum usitatissimum. 



jj This is about the return in the district of Etayuh, 7£ seers of linseed, castor, 

 and mustard, give about 3 of oil, and the man who works the press is paid in grain. 



