HORDEUM VULGARE. 



11 



Cost of cultivation. 



of the ear and swelling out of the stalk joints. Then a blackish dust makes its appear- 

 ance on the ear and at the stalk joints, which rapidly spreads over them and entirely 

 destroys the grain. There are very few barley fields in which some of these distorted 

 charred-looking heads cannot be detected, and they are especially numerous in seasons 

 of good winter rain. 



The cost of growing an acre of barley by hired labour may be estimated as fol- 

 lows : — 



Ploughing (four times), 

 Clod crushing (four times), 

 Seed (120 lbs.), 

 Sowing, 

 Reaping, 

 Threshing, ... 

 Cleaning, 



Irrigation (twice) — 

 Canal dues, 

 Labour, ... 



Total, 



Bent, 



18 

 2 8 



ES. AS, P. 



3 



8 



2 8 

 14 

 18 



3 

 6 



Grand Total, 



11 12 



4 



...5 



.,. 20 12 



Average outturn. Under similar conditions the outturn of barley is from a quarter to a half as 



much again as that of wheat. This is to some extent, however, counterbalanced by the 

 general average of barley land being of considerably inferior quality to that of wheat 

 land, and after comparison of the safest authorities, an estimate of 16 maunds to the 

 acre of irrigated land seems a fair one. The outturn of irrigated wheat-barley may be 

 put at 15 maunds, and that of barley-gram at 14 maunds, since the ordinary return of 

 both wheat and gram is lighter than that of barley. 



For unirrigated land the following estimates have been framed : — 





Meerut 

 Division. 



Rohilkhand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allahabad 

 Division. 



Benares 

 Division. 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



Kumann 

 Division. 



Oadh. 



Barley, ... 



11 



11 



8 



8 



9 



7 



10 



10 



Barley- wheat, ... 



10 



10 



7 



7 



8 



6 



9 



9 



Barley-gram, ... 



9 



9 



6 



7 



8 



7 



8 



8 



Barley constitutes about f ths of the total produce when grown with either wheat 

 or gram. 



The weight of straw {bJiusa) may be taken as 1| times that of the grain. 

 Area. The average area under barley in the 30 temporarily settled N.-W. Provinces Dis- 



c 2 



