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sickle, and tying up the sheaves in three or four handsful to a bundle. 

 The grain is detached from the husk by cattle, treading it under feet. 

 Wheat lands occupy 1,127 beeghas and yields 5,127 pullas. 



Current price Rs, 6-8 per pulla, cheap seasons Rs, 3-12, and dear 

 Rs. 6-13. 



Pulse. 



Pulse. Chenna — Circer Arietinum. — A rich soil is required 



for this crop, which is prepared much in the same man- 

 ner as wheat, after having been occupied by bajree or some pulse 

 crop of the khureef. It ripens in four months, requiring no further 

 moisture to mature the plant, beyond that derived from the dews, 

 4,739 beeghas are sown, yielding 1,140 pullas. 



Current price Rs. 6 per pulla, cheap seasons Rs. 3, and dear Rs. 7-6. 



Oil Plants. 



Oil Plants. Kulclee— Carthamus Tinctorius. — Very often drill- 

 Kuldee. J 



ed in with wheat, and jowarree, and sometimes sown 



alone. It ripens its seeds in five months, the seed is freed from its 



husk by beating. 



8 Seers will yield about If seer of oil, the refuse of the mill is 

 given to cattle. The oil is burnt in lamps. 

 3,018 beeghas, yielded 1,252 pullas. 



Current price 4 Rs. per pulla, cheap seasons Rs. 1-12, and dear 

 R s. 4-5. 



Tllsee — Linum TJsitatissimum. — Is a mixed crop, o r 

 sometimes sown alone in small stripes on wheat land. 

 Its ligneous fibre is not employed, the seed alone being required, 

 which on expression yields a rich oil. The plant ripens in four 

 months and a half : when ripe the plant is pulled up, and the seeds 

 trodden out by cattle. 



4 Seers of seeds will yield on pressure 1 seer of oil, and is ge- 

 nerally employed for the commonest purposes. The refuse of the 

 oil mill is given to cattle. 



Current price Rs. 4 per pulla, cheap seasons 2 Rs. and dear Ru. 

 pees 5. 



Tobacco. — Principally grown about the richer lands 

 Tobacco. . \ x. i .• i r -i 



m Pvtun Purgunnah ; there has been a partial failure 



