50 



INDIGOFERA TINCTORIA. 



Average outturn. The average outturn of jamowa plant may be put at 80 maunds per acre. The out- 



turn of asarJd plant will be rather less than this in the first year, but equal to it in 

 the second year. A jamowa crop, if the stumps are lett in the ground after the stalks 

 have been cut and the land not ploughed up for a rabi crop, will yield an outturn of 

 about 6 maunds of seed to the acre. 



Area. The average area under indigo during 1878, 1879 and 1880 in the 30 temporarily 



settled N.-W. Provinces Districts 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, 



1,00,796 



2,859 



81,035 



33,482 



7,960 







2,26,132 



Uuirrigatetl, ... 



5,363 



1,123 



5,341 



9,048 



11,867 



222 



22 



32,986 



Total, ... 



1,06,159 



3,982 



86,376 



42,530 



19,827 



222 



22 



2,59,118 



Adding 30,000 acres on account of Oudh and the 5 permanently settled N.-W. 

 Provinces Districts, the total Provincial indigo area is raised to 2,89,118 acres. 

 Trade. The exports of indigo during the last three years are given in the following table : — 





1878-79. 



1879-80. 



1880-81. 





mds,* 



mds.* 



mds.* 



To Calcutta, 



50,157 



25,063 



40,910 



To other places, ... 



7,881 



3,726 



5,062 



Total, .. 



58,038 



28,789 



45,972 



Explanation of Plate XII 



1. Flower seen from behind, 

 2 & 3. Side views of ditto, 

 4. Raceme of pods (nat, size). 



^ enlarged. 



* Government maunds of 82 lbs, not factory maunds. 



