CYAMOPSIS PSORALIOIDES. 



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agricultural cattle are of far better quality than the ordinary. Fully half of the agri- 

 cultural cattle of the districts of the Meerut Division are purchased from the outside, 

 the cultivators of these districts recognizing that it is more profitable to import good 

 animals from tracts specially fitted for breeding, than to attempt to breed them themselves 

 on the limited grazing area at their command. The proportion of imported to home- 

 bred cattle reaches its maximum in Meerut, and steadily decreases as one goes eastward, 

 until it becomes almost nil in Fatehpur and Allahabad. The value of a purchased ani- 

 mal is brought home more strongly to the cultivator than the value of a home-bred one, 

 and much greater care is taken of the one than of the other. The western districts ac- 

 cordingly form the only tract in the Provinces where crops are grown on any large scale 

 for cattle fodder. The large cultivation of juar as a green fodder crop in the Meerut 

 Division has been already noticed. It occupies there more than ten times as large an 

 area as in any other Division. The cultivation of guar also reaches its maximum in the 

 same tract, and is an indication of the care of agricultural stock which one would be glad 

 to see extended to other parts of the Provinces. 



Guar is sown at the commencement of the rains and is cut in October. Its average 

 produce of dry pulse to the acre may be taken as 10 maunds. 



Explanation of Plate XXXV. 



1. Upper part of plant, (nat. size.) 



4. Eaceme of flowers and pods, 



5. A single pod, 



6. Ditto with one valve removed. 



3. Flower, back view. 



nat. size. 



Drawn from a living specimen gathered at Sahai'anpur. 



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