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STATISTICAL SKETCH 



Banjar. The cultivators, who descend during the winter to the Tarai, take 

 land in farm from the Zemindars there also, and have thus two crops on the 

 ground in different parts at the same moment. This they are enabled to 

 eifect by the difference in the period of harvest in the plains and hills ; the 

 Rebi crop in the former being sown later, and ripe earlier than in the 

 latter. 



The following is a statement exhibiting the various products, together 

 with the average rate of their return, as collected from reports of every per- 

 gunnah in the province. 



The three kinds of land are, 1st. The sera, or valley, fully capable of 

 irrigation; 2nd, not irrigatable, but in low situations ; 3rd, near tops of moun- 

 tainso The average price of each kind of grain, during the last six years, 

 at Almora is also added. In the interior, particularly of Gerhwal, where 

 the demand is small^ the prices are infinitely lower. 



Kice, Seers 1 

 per Rupee, J 



Mandua,. .». 

 Jangora, or 

 Manora, ... 

 Kown},,..». 



China,,,,.. 

 Chua, or 



Marsa, 



Kodu5o«s«3«» 



l>^gai^, ao « • 



1 



CHARIF, OR FIRST CROP. 



Land. Middling. Worst. Remarks, 



32 ...... 20 11 28 



50 .,..,. 40 35 40 



50 ...... 38 30 42 



48 ...... SQ 2i 40 



60 ...... 42 S5 40 



100 S5 72 40 



16 ,.,,.. 12 ,.,... 10 ...... 30 Partially cultivated, 



„ ,,„.. 25 15 ..„,, I6 Ditto ditto. 



