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SRE *9 "BHADGAON Farm. ath iii nines camel 
i This, farm has just been: sold-for a satisfactory: sum; It I 
1,156 acres., Of that area 812- acres were originally transferred from. 
Government waste for, the use: of eg ra and have been principally. 
used as grass and hay land. -The remainder was purchased from time 
to time from private, occupants, often at á high price, for in this area 
not only was the land. already. cleared de i cun aa but there were 
several wells which added to its value. It máy be» said. paapa — 
prion was ATTORI to 25 times the assosemené: on. the form and 
o 40 times on. the, latter... Such:a- priee is à. proof, ue ain of the 
Ee sy value of m I of the improvement: made it during its: 
utilisation as à Government farm. Live and. dead. Mock fetched more 
than the fact hats Tio, à nd the standing crops, which under.a 
favourable season were unusu ally fine, nearly as large a figure as the 
gross value of the crop of the previous m though the purchaser bears 
the cost of harvest, and the risk of untimely rain and the li o 
buildings, the total Queso on new erection renovation, M repairs. 
during the last 10 years to Rs. 12,8 The farm buildings, 
together Au the. diftus. p originally (1833) cost Rs. 5,000, 
sold for over Rs. 11,000, a fair price. The arm was purchased, 
by a caipitaliet, who intends to work it as a farin. yr he may sub-let 
portions from time to time. 
The reason why the farm was sold is, broadly pea Des its isolated 
inaccessible situation, but among other reasons were the failure of the 
Jámda Canal, the unhealthiness of the locality, and ae great dearth of 
abour 
The "dé iac are in part available for the acquisition of . ane for 
another farm in à more suitable locality, and for the. eia f farm 
buildings, and for stocking. In all probability the Dod will be 
ated in the neighbour rat. 
Ås to the working of the farm in the year under report, I need only 
say that the kharif season was unfavourable; but the late erops were, 
partly on this account, good enough to show a profit, on the whole, of. 
Rs. 6 per acre of cro pped land, or ‘nearly as large a profit as that re 
on the average of the previous five years. 
The ooh rae made were chiefly those which have been carriedo 
fora series of y They may best be deseribed in the TN ou. 
general remar ks hie, I think, show what use the pes has served. 
during the last d : 
It has taught ~ fally the local € of cultivation, has in some 
s shown that that system is e, and has given facts of 
| value which could not iere ‘been otherwise obtained. We 
have demonstrated the benefit of seleetion of seed, a point to which local 
cultivators were and are den but to which more attention has 
attracted, and it is not — to say that this is a lesson 
-- which will not be wholly forgotten 
We have proved that it is useless to —— in implements, mà 
we lee found a place for improved sugar-cane mills, for 
oes, and, wiihin ay gs for the Miiadiptod of E 
ploughs. e have introduced from abroad, as well as from other parts. 
ully grown some new varieties of staple crops, eig: 
dl variety of. béjel from | Gujarat, reha from Broach and elses 
where, new kinds of cena several varieties of wheat from various: 
places, among which the M uzáffarnagar soft white has done very well, 
and potatoes, the future of whieh i is hopeful. 
