I'AI TLF. 



is most frequently given to the buffaloes to th ink ; 

 that which is sold, generally rovers the cost of minor 

 expenses. All expenses being deducted, the profit 

 on the ahove quantity of ghee will lie, as nearly as 

 possible. Spanish dollars £XX). 



The ghee obtained from 100 buffaloes would 

 suffice tor the rations (adopting the present rate at 

 which such are issued) of 337 sepoys. Eueh native 

 soldier is supposed to consume 30 ehittacks of ghee 

 monthly, and the re are 1.(500 in a pieul. It is obvious 

 from the above statement, oliich it is believed vt ill 

 be found pretty correct, that until a much stronger 

 competition shall take place than now exists, the 

 prices of huhcr and milk will continue too high 16 

 admit of ghee being largeh manufactured, the profit 

 on the sale of milk alone exceeding that of ghee 

 on the scale here adopted, by Spanish dollars 330. 



Buffalo butter finds comparatively a limited .sale, 

 that made from COW'S milk being preferred, although 

 that sold to the shipping- under the latter denomina- 

 tion is a mixture of the two, or merely dyed buffalo 

 butter. 



The quality of the ghee is here and to the eastward 

 m general, owing to the richness of the pasturage 

 perhaps, so superior to that brought from India, that 

 s. poys frequently exchange their rations of the latter 

 for a lesser quatiiin of it. 



A guntang of rich c ow's milk lies e \ aids about 

 20 sicca rupce^ w eight or { seer of butter, which is 

 feitd for 40 cents. Cattle are subject on this Penin- 

 sula to violent murrains, vhich sucep away gtvai. 

 numbers, 't hese are luckily not of frequent occur- 

 rence. 



Since Keddah became a dependency of S&fttj no 

 reliance Ims hcon placed on it for supplies of any 

 sort, nor has am incomemcuce been felt on that 



