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thick together, and mutually supporting each other. This is the 

 reason assigned : but it is not satisfactory ; as, if one half of the 

 seed were sown, the plant would not be drawn up to so slender a 

 stem, would have more room to strike down sufficient, and would 

 resist the weather better than when sown so thick as is the present 

 practice. 



Keerpoy The estimated quantity of seed required to sow a 



began is five seers. 



Patna. — A begah consists of twenty cottahs, and a cottah 

 consists of a square of six cubits, or nine feet, on each side. One 

 seer of seed is required to sow a cottah, or twenty seers for a begah. 



The best Sunn is produced from stout and tall stems, and there- 

 fore the seed is scattered more abroad, about half a foot distant from 

 each other. 



Chittagong. — One seer, or two pounds of seed, is sufficient 

 for one cauny or begah of ground.* 



Board of Trade Consult. 14th Jan. 1793. " 



Radnagore. — Each begah takes sixteen seers of seed. 



Board of Trade Consult. 2d June, 1801. 



Commercolly. — Thirty seers per begah of Phool-Sunn. 



Twenty seers per begah of Boggy Sunn. 



Board of Trade Consult. 12th June, 1801. 



Keerpoy. Twenty seers per begah. 



Board of Trade Consult. 21 st July, 1801. 



* I suspect this to be an error. R. W. 

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