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AVENA SATIVA. 



Cost of cultivation. The cost of cultivation per acre may be taken as the same as that of barley, and 



the outturn as 18 maunds on irrigated, and 10 maunds on unirrigated, land. 



Area. The area under oats as returned for the year 1880-81 in the 30 temporarily settled 



Districts of the Province is shown below by Divisions : — 





Meerut 

 Division. 



Rohilkhand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allahabad 

 Division, 

 excluding 

 Jaunpur 

 District. 



Benares 

 Division, 

 including 

 Basti and 

 Gorakhpur 

 Districts 

 only. 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



Kumaun 

 Division, 

 including 

 Tarai 

 District 

 only. 



Total. 





acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



Irrigated, 



3,278 



217 



81 



252 



7 







3,835 



Unirrigated, ... 



2,379 



3,058 



295 



181 



33 







5,946 



Total, ... 



5,657 



3,275 



376 



433 



40 







9,781 



Explanation of Plate III. 



1. Entire plant (reduced to J nat. 



2. Portion of stem with leaf. 



3. Panicle in fruit. 



4. Spikelet. 



5. Ditto, ripe. 



6. Flower and upper pale. 



7. Lower pale. 



size). 



>nat. size. 



enlarged. 



Ovai7 vrith plumose styles and 1 

 the ciliate lodicules. J ° 



1 



9. Grain (nat. size). 



10. Ditto, grooved side. 



11. Ditto, back view. 



12. Ditto, vertical section. 



13. Ditto, lower portion (much enlarged). 



enlarged. 



