1850,] 



Sircar of Pytun. 



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immediately the crop is carried away, and then left till the time comes 

 round, for preparing them further for sowing : as the hot season 

 closes in, all are again busy preparing land for the early harvest, 

 which is the heaviest : towards October the late harvest is all put in. 



Meteorology. 



Possessing no data of its climatal variations, I have 

 Meteorology. nothing . to offer un( j er this head, but assume the fact, 

 that it differs but little from what has been observed at Aurungabad. 



Productions. 



Khureef, or Autumnal Harvest ; Corn, Jowarree, or 

 owarree. JPolcus Saccharatus . — Of this grain, two varieties are 

 grown, the red and white ; the latter is a rubbee crop, and differs 

 from the former in possessing a stalk more abounding in saccharine 

 matter, and in great demand as forage. This grain is the principal 

 produce of the Sircar, as bajree was found to be in Doulutabad ; 

 both form the staple diet of the peasantry, but jowarree is con- 

 sidered far less nutritious, as well as more indigestible than bajree : 

 the flour is made into cakes and porridge. It is generally sown 

 alone, though occasionally seen mixed, as the compound husbandry 

 of the season. In the rubbee crop, koosumba is associated with it 

 very often, in the proportion of three furrows, to every fifteen or 

 twenty, about the middle of the monsoon is the usual period for sow- 

 ing, though the early or lateness of doing this, entirely depends on 

 the fall of rain. The time for reaping occurs about October. It is 

 an exhausting crop, and is never sown twice on the same land. 



There are 46,201 beeghas occupied with its cultivation, produc- 

 ing a turn out of 15,777 pullas. Its current price is Rs, 2-2 per 

 pulla. Dear seasons 5 Rs. cheap Rs. 1 As. 10, the straw of the white 

 variety sells for 2 Rs. for a hundred bundles. 



Bajree, Holcus Sjricatus. — Very largely cultivated, 

 and well adapted to the soil of the province, being 

 hardy, and capable of thriving on the rubbee soils, close up to the hill 

 side. Its mode of culture is the same as that followed for jowarree, 

 and may be sown alone or mixed with various sorts of pulses, and 

 umbarree ; it ripens in four or five months. 



23,971 beeghas are sown, yielding 7,223 pullas, current price 

 Rs. 2-4 per pulla, dear seasons Rs. 4-9, cheap Rs, 2-2. 



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