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bone* at about 1 dollar per pieul, and exports them 

 to China where they sell them, it is said, for from 3 to 

 5 dollars tie picul. They are pounded by the indefa- 

 tigable agriculturists of that country, and applied us 

 immure. 



As it has l>ecn once or twice proposed that ghee 

 should l>e made here to supply troop*, the following 

 calculation may not prove useless. 



One hundred female buffaloes, will give yearly, 

 one widi another, 9,125 guntaugs of milk in all, 

 which, on the spot, would sell for 10 pice the guntuttjgft 

 or for the whole, the price will be 1,460 Spanish 

 dollars. But the milk is commonly adulterated with 

 one-fourth part by measure of pure water, a fraud 

 ubi. h, owing to the very rich nature of the milk of 

 animal, is not easily detected. The profit by the 

 fraudulent sale is therefore 1,825 Spanish dollars on 

 the spot. When carried to market, which it always is 

 in this adulterated state, its value, at 6 pice the chupah 

 or 25 pice the guntang, will be 2,190 Spanish dollars. 

 The profit, after deducting wages and expenses, on 

 the market eale of the pure milk, would be 1,230 

 Spanish dollars, that on the fraudulent sale 1595 

 dollars. As matters now rest, the milk-men are 

 rogues to little purpose, for the demand befog greater 

 than die supply, and en jo\ ing as they do a sort of 

 monopoly, they could make as much profit by selling 

 pure milk ouh, and raising its price. 



If ghee be made, then the produce will be one 

 chupah of it for eight chupahs of pure milk, or one 

 pieul by weight of ghee for every 60 chupahs, or 15 

 guntangs by measurement, of milk. 



One hundred female hntfaloes will j ield 76 pi«u!s 

 of ghee in a year, which, at the bazar rate for the 

 superior sort here, will be equal in value to Spanish 

 dollars 1,140. The butter-milk is of little value and 



