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soil requisite for Sunn, differ from the information he has obtained ; 

 but from Mr. Douglas's experience his opinion may be preferable. 

 The Resident has never seen any land in cultivation for Sunn except 

 in patches ; in many instances it is broken up when the plant is 

 about eighteen inches high, and left to rot on the ground as a 

 manure for sugar-cane, and the cheapest that could be procured 

 at a distance from the villages. 



Board of Trade Consult. 11th Jidy, 1S01. 

 Malda. — Only the high spots are at present sown. 



Board of Trade Consult. 1 1 th Sept. 1801. 



Cuttorah. — The soil is well suited to the plant. At Hurri- 

 paul it is different ; the lands, being low, stint the growth. 



Board of Trade Consult. 1th Oct. 1801. 



Luckypore. — The land in this district is too low and wet for 

 Sunn. 



Board of Trade Consult. 16th Oct. 1801. 



Mr. Arthur Young, in the 205th No. of the Annals of Agri- 

 culture, published Oct. 1807, says, Hemp succeeds well on drained 

 bogs, and on newly broken up grass lands, and that it prepares well 

 for wheatr Relative to bogs, he says, he has known a peat-bog in 

 Huntingdonshire produce fifty stone per acre, which is a fair crop 



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