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rAPAVER SOMNIFERTJM. 



Area. 



seers, and tlie differences between this and 387, that is to say 1,471 seers, or about '8 of 

 a seer per acre, may be taken as the least possible amount of opium retained by cultiva- 

 tors, making no allowance for any which may have been conveyed beyond the limits 

 of the District, and very possibly lowered the consumption of Government opium in 

 Moradabad as well. 



Ten seers of opium to the acre may, therefore, be accepted as the average outturn 

 of crude opium for the Provinces. It maybe mentioned that the outturn of manii- 

 facltired opium from the Ghazipur factory in 1878-79 falls at the rate of a little over 

 7 seers per acre under opium cultivation in that year, calculated as below : — 

 Area returned for 30 N.-W. Provinces temporarily settled Districts in 



the fasli year 128G (1878-79), 

 Oudli area (from Administration Report), 



Estimate for the 5 N.-W. Provinces permanently settled Districts, 

 Outturn from Ghazipur factory 45,995 maunds =■ 18,39,800 seers. 



1,49,998 

 *80,371 

 30,000 



18,39,800 



= 7 seers per acre. 



2,00,309 



In addition to the opium about 5 or 6 maunds seed will be obtained to the acre, and 

 about 20 seers petal cakes, which are purchased by Government at from 4 to 8 seers 

 per rupee. 



The average area under opium during the last three years in the 30 temporarily 

 settled Districts of the N.-W. Provinces is shown by Divisions below : — 





Mccrut 

 Division. 



Rohilkliand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allababad 



Division, 



excluding 



Jaunpur 



District. 



Benares 

 Division, 

 including 

 Azamgarli, 

 Basti and 

 Gorakhpur 

 Districts 

 only. 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



Kumaun 

 Division, 

 including 



Tarai 

 District 

 only. 



Total. 





acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



Irrigated, 



193 



18,547 



50,730 



20,219 



48,833 



1,193 





1,39,715 



Unirrigated, 



100 



1,014 



454 



1,373 



6,589 







9,530 



Total, 



293 



19,5G1 



51,184 



21,592 



55,422 



1,193 





1,49,245 



Adding 1,00,000 acres on account of Oadh and the permanently settled N.-W. Pro- 

 vinces Districts, the total average area is brought up to nearly 2i lakhs of acres. 



1. 



2. 



Explanation of Plaie'HY. 



Upper part of plant bearing a bud and a 



young capsule, (reduced.) 

 Plower bud, (uat. size.) 



Single sepal. 

 A Flower. 



Vertical section of ditto 



itto. ) 



nat. size. 



* Area under opium was above the average. 



