1850.] Report on the Statistics of Banda. 103 



36th. Miing, Mash or l/rd is cultivated pretty extensively, but 

 generally mixed with Bajra or J oar or Til. I do not recollect to have 

 seen a field of it by itself ; it ripens in October. 



37th. Moth (Phaseolus aconitifolius) is similarly cultivated but not 

 so often. 



38^. Arhar (Cajanus bicolor) is very extensively sown both by 

 itself or mixed with cotton in June, July, and the produce is sometimes, 

 (as this year) very great ; it is reaped along with the wheat in March, 

 it grows to the height of 10 and 1 1 feet sometimes. The twigs termed 

 Kharu are of great use in basket making. 



39th. The smaller millets, Chini . (Panicum meliacium) and 

 Kangni, here termed Kakiin (Setaria Itaiica), are sown with the first 

 fall of rain and are generally ripe and cut in the course of August, or 

 early in September. A variety of the Panicum meliacium termed 

 Kiitki is peculiar to the Patha. 



40th. Til (Sesamum orientale) is extensively cultivated both by 

 itself or mixed with cotton or l/rd. There are mills in most villages 

 for expressing the oil ; it is reaped in October. 



4lst. Sugar-cane is not now cultivated as a crop for sugar except in 

 a few villages in Pergannah Kalinjar, but only as a luxury in gardens ; 

 formerly it was more cultivated and numerous stone Kolus are to be 

 seen lying about villages ; but I am informed that these were really 

 never used but distributed by a benevolent Mahomedan Governor in 

 the time of Aurangzeb, for the purpose of encouraging the cultivation 

 of the Cane ; the general objections to it are the want of water for irri- 

 gation and the extreme abundance of white ants. It would, I think, be 

 well worth while to attempt the introduction of some of those varieties 

 which are stated to resist the attacks of those insects. 



42nd. Rice is cultivated but partially, and only in such parts of the 

 Mar land, as are lowest and almost continually under water. I have 

 little doubt but that this crop might be very advantageously extended 

 were there any means of securing a supply of water. A small quantity 

 is sown in the rabbi along the edges of the rivers by the Khewats 

 and reaped in March ; a mode of cultivating it new to me. 



43rd. Kodon (Paspalum scorbiculatum) is cultivated extensively. 

 It is especially near the hills in Pergannahs Budausa, Tirohan and 

 Chibu. 



