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Statistics of the Sircar YelyuniJud. [No. 39, 



Stock is generally considered in conjunction with culture. The 

 number of all sorts amounts to 2,66,991. The following Table shows 

 the different kinds. 



Description. 



Draught Cattle. . . 



Dairy 



Sheep and Goats. . 

 Horses and Asses. 



Total 



Number, 



44,907 

 1,23,875 

 96,861 

 1,348 



2,66,991 



In the General Table is exhibited more particularly the number 

 of each description of species — no attention is paid to breeding 

 and the land is overstocked during the cold and wet months, the 

 forage for their support is barely sufficient, and the fodder housed 

 is quite inadequate to their wants during the hot season ; conse- 

 quently when the herbage fails they die in hundreds, either from 

 want of food, or diseases induced by its improper quality. Both 

 bullocks and buffaloes are small, averaging in price for draught 

 fifteen rupees per pair — a she buffaloe giving 4 seers of milk (the 

 usual quantity per diem) brings thirty-two rupees ; a cow which 

 seldom gives more than 2 seers, fetches ten rupees. A pair of 

 either buffaloes or bullocks are sufficient for drawing a plough 

 which here, unlike the ploughs of other countries is constructed to 

 turn up the smallest quantity cf ground possible, instead of the 

 greatest. 



In this, the cultivator seems to adopt every 

 Method of culti- ; . 



ration. means within his grasp and puts m practice those 



devised by his forefathers, though limited the former and rude the 



latter. For rice crops, after his agreement with the zemindar, water 



is let in upon his land, and when sufficiently soft, it is ploughed 



and the weeds collected by the gorroo and the clods broken by 



the buckerhackana (both drawn by cattle) : after this it receives a 



scanty supply of manure of cow-dung, leaves of the custard-apple 



tree and corinjee, it is then smoothed with the hand and sown either 



with the drill plough, or by broad casting ; the time occupied 



