IS4> STATISTICAL SKETCH 



Kalau 1 \ -, 1 Q 



Mutter J 



OIL SEEDS. 



Atsi. ...... 16 ...... 14 1'2 16 



Serson 40 30 15 32 Cultivated chiefly in Bhawer. 



Cotton is not much grown in the hills : the produce is, however, of excel- 

 lent quality, and by native judges is said to be superior to that of the plains, 

 in softness of texture, gloss of color, and length of fibre. 



Hemp: the growth of this article was, at one time, considerable, as the 

 Company procured an annual investment of it from this province: these pur- 

 chases have now ceased ; the demand for it for the manufacture of cloth, of 

 which much is consumed in the province, still encourages the cultivation. 

 The quality of the hill hemp has been always much praised : the plant 

 attains the height of from 12 to 14 feet, and the fibre is extremely strong j 

 other advantages are derived from a crop of hemp, which will be best shown 

 in a statement of the produce ; taking a pucka bigha to require 8 seer of 

 seed in wheat, 16 seers of hemp seed would be necessary to sow the 

 same extent, the produce of which would be in the first place, 4 sers of ChiraSy 

 the inspissated juice of the leaf, value 8 rupees ; 4 maunds of hemp value 8 

 rupees, and 48 seers of seed capable of yielding 6 seers of oil, value 1. 8. 0, 

 giving a total money return of 178 rupees the bigha. The cultivation of hemp 

 is confined almost entirely to Gerhwal^ and is only to be occasionally met 

 with in Kamaon proper. 



Sitgar cane is raised in some parts of the province where the land is 

 particularly good, but the total quantity of sugar manufactured in the pro- 

 vince is very trifling. 



