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pillars which are so much dreaded by the American planter. Indeed it is reported 

 from some Districts that it is never attacked by insects at all. Sawani tobacco, i.e., that 

 cut in February, occasionally suffers from frost in Districts west of Benares, where light 

 frosts are of no unfrequent occurrence, while that not cut till April has much to fear 

 from hail, which especially in Districts under the Hills, often entirely destroys the crop. 

 The leaves occasional!}' suffer from the attacks of a kind of grey mildew, known as 7cdj)H 

 in the Azamgarh District. 



Cost of cultivation. The cost of growing an acre of sawani tobacco is shown approximately below: — 





ES. A. 



p. 



Preparation of seed bed, 







10 







Cost of seed, (say) 







4 







Cost of raising seedlings (watering, weeding and thinning for 2 months), 



2 











Ploughing field (ten times). 



7 



8 







Making water beds. 







3 







"Watering (eight times from canal). 



12 











Transplanting, 



1 



14 







Weeding (four times), 



3 











Cutting, heaping, &c., 



5 











Total, 



32 



7 







Eent (|rds of annual), 



10 











Manure (frds of cost of 200 maunds), ... 



4 











Grand Total, 



46 



7 







Average outturn. Irrigation has been presumed to be from a canal, although such is very seldom the 



case, since it is otherwise almost impossible to calculate its real cost. 



The District reports are extremely discrepant in the matter of average outturn, 

 varying between a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 20 maunds per acre. Probably 

 10 maunds good tobacco, with 4 or 5 maunds broken leaf, is a safe estimate. If, as is 

 generally the case with sawani tobacco, a ratoon crop is taken from the same plants, an- 

 other 5 maunds must be added to this. 



Area, The average area under tobacco during the last three years in the 30 temporarily 



settled N.-W. Provinces Districts is shown below : — 



Area under tobacco. 



Meerut 

 Division. 



Robilkhand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allahabad 

 Division, 

 excluding 

 Jaunpur 

 District 

 only. 



Benares 

 Division, 

 including 

 Azamgarh, 

 Basti and 

 Gorakhpur 

 Districts 

 only. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



13,030 



3,580 



7,965 



3,846 



815 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



acres. 

 261 



Kumann 

 Division, 

 including 



Tarai 

 District 

 only. 



26 



Total. 



acres. 



29,523 



The area under tobacco in Oudh is much larger than this, and cannot be estimated 

 less than 58,000 acres, nearly two-thirds of which are engrossed by the Districts of 

 the Sitapur Division. Adding 3,000 acres for the 5 N.-W. Provinces permanently 



