INTRODUCTION. 



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therefore to decrease. Iii backward parts of the Provinces where farms are large and cultivation 

 low, rents are generally paid in kind, often amounting to half, and very seldom to less than a third, of 

 the produce ; the produce, however, being so small as not to make the landlord's share worth more 

 than Re. 1 or Rs. 2 per acre. Smaller farms necessitate a larger produce, but the increase is obtain- 

 ed at an expenditure which will not admit of a proportionate increase in rent. In such cases rent 

 may be as high as Rs. 10 per acre, and still not represent more than j^th. of the gross produce. It 

 has, however, been customary to regard rent as measured with more or less exactness by ^rd of the 

 produce, and this principle has been not unfrequently reconciled with facts by understating the pro- 

 duce when the rent seemed unduly low. 



The distribution of the rabi, kharif, and total cropped area amongst the more important crops 

 in the 30 temporarily settled N.-W. Provinces Districts is shoAvn below in the form of a percentage. 

 The figures have been calculated from an average for three years — 1878-79, 1879-80, and 1880-81. 



Crop. 



Percentage on 



Crop, 



rEUCENTAGE ON 



Kharif 

 area. 



Rabi and 

 zaid 

 area. 



Total 

 area. 



Kharif 

 area. 



Rabi and 



zaid 

 1 area. 



Total 

 area. 



Kharif. 









Jiali. 









Juar, ... 



10-7 





5-7 



Wheat, 





28 G 



13-4 



Bajra, 



7-7 





4-1 



Wheat and Barley, ... ... i 



9-5 



4'2 



Arliar, 



1-0 





0-5 



Wheat and Gram, ... 





8-1 



3-8 



Juar and Arliar, 



12-1 





G-4 



Barley, 





13-5 



63 



Bajra and Arliar, 



7'7 





4-1 



Barley and Gram, ... 





192 



9-5 



Maize, 



5-7 





3-0 



Gram, 





10'3 



4-8 



Rice, ... 



21-3 





11-3 



Peas, 





3-3 



1-5 



Urd, 



2-0 





]-0 



Masnr, 





1-0 



0-4 



Moth, 



1-6 





0-9 



Potatoes, 





0-1 



0-1 



Cotton, 



4-1 





2-2 



Opium, 





1-3 



0-6 



Cotton and Arliar, ... 



6-9 





3-G 



Tobacco, 





0-2 



0-1 



Sugar-cane, ... 



4-8 





2-5 



Melons, 





0'2 



0-1 



Indigo, 



20 





11 



Vegetables, .,, 





0-1 



0-0 



Fodder crops, 



2-(3 





1-3 



Garden food crops, ... 





0-1 



0-0 



Garden food crops, ... 



0-1 





0-1 



Garden non-food crops, 





0'2 



0-1 



Garden non-food crops, 



0-1 





0-1 



Miscellaneous food crops, ... 





i-;5 



0-6 



Miscellaneous food crops, ... 



7'8 





4-1 



Miscellaneous non-food crops. 







1-5 



Miscellaneous non-food crops, 



1-8 





1-0 









J. B. FULLER. 



