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same care shown in the cultivation of rice is bestowed on it. It is 

 not that the other parts of the Nizam's Telinganah are unfitted 

 for the growth of sugar-cane, but the poverty of the ryots prevents 

 them from embarking in a work which not only requires a superi- 

 or degree of skill, but the possession of a certain capital, very high 

 rents are demanded for sugar ground, the lowest 150 B-s. per bee- 

 gah and the highest 250 Es. when the wells are in good order. 

 A more moderate rent is asked when the Coonbee has to repair 

 the wells at his own charge, but even then it is many times higher 

 than the rent paid for corn ground, the juice is expressed by the 

 common screw mill which may be made up for 5 Es. and of which 

 a representation is given ; it will be seen that in no respect it dif- 

 fers from the machine in common use all over India. The use of 

 the Pestle and Mortar mill is all but abandoned, although from 

 the large granitic Mortars that are seen in many fields there is 

 abundant evidence to prove that at one time it was generally em- 

 ployed. The produce of a beegah runs from twenty-five to ten 

 Kundees, twenty and fifteen Kundees being the average interme- 

 diate crops between these two extremes. There is no peculiarity 

 in the cultivation of the sugar plant, that merits being mentioned, 

 the fields are usually fenced with the milk bush hedge, and not 

 without reason as the cane forms a tempting object of repast not 

 only to man, but to wild hogs, racoons, &c. which occasionally 

 break through all fences to get at their favourite food. The goor 

 is reboiled at Maiduck, with chuiiam and ground bones, and ma- 

 nufactured into a raw sugar the coarseness of which is shown by its 

 name lal shukkur, it is prepared chiefly for the Hydrabad market. 



Cynosarus Coracanus. — This grain called by the Natives Eaggy, 

 is cultivated much after the manner of the millets in the Nelgoon- 

 dah and Devarcondah Sircars, and in the Mudurah pergunnah of 

 Kummum, it is reckoned a wholesome and cooling grain. 



The Yerbesina Sativa, the seeds of which yield a coarse kind of 

 oil, is grown at Maiduck and in the Kummum Sircar, little care is 

 bestowed on its cultivation. 



The Arachis hypogea, or earth nut, is sometimes grown in gar- 

 dens, but it is not a commonly cultivated plant. 



Eor the other grains, pulses, and cultivated produce generally 

 with their mode of culture. I refer to my report on Warungul 

 which embraces them all with the exception of the three last men- 

 tioned that are found in this portion of Telinganah. 



