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COTTON-WOOL. 



Appendix. of the munnoah plant, and that an estimate is formed of 

 the produce between the aumils and the ryots, and their 

 respective shares adjusted, supposing the whole to be 

 thirty-five seers, or seventeen-and-a-half to each, such 

 produce being divided in equal portions, then the ryot 

 agrees to take the aumil's share, and pays him money for 

 the same according to the fixed or settled pergunna rates 

 of the article in the rubby-neckhnamah, or price-current, 

 issued to every division by the Resident, for the guide of 

 the aumils in respect to the collection of the revenue for 

 the battaye lands. 



The estimated profit derived to the ryots from the cul- 

 tivation of the rarreah cotton is from two to five rupees 

 per begah ; and for that of the munnoah sort half-a-rupee 

 to one rupee (independent of what the cultivator of this 

 sort gets from the produce of the other articles sown along 

 with it) per begah. It is obvious, however, a calculation 

 cannot be made, so as to shew exactly the precise gain 

 derived at all seasons and places by the ryots from the 

 culture of this or any other article, while so many casual 

 events may tend to influence both the produce and the 

 prices of it ; all that therefore can be done is, to form a 

 judgment as near as the state of things will admit. On 

 this principle the following particulars are founded. 



The quantity of rarreah kupas produced in a begah 

 generally varies from two to four maunds, according to 

 the quality of the soil and the nature of the seasons. The 

 following calculation is formed on the medium of three 

 maunds, and the prices stated according to the present 

 rates at Benares. 



Rarreah. 



