506 St^iisttcs of ihe Circar of Dowhitahad. [No. 36, 



exhausting crops together is an excellent system. For instance 

 jowarree is generally sown with moong and umbarree ; bajree with 

 koolt^e, ralla, mut, moong, umbarree, and tour ; and wheat with kul 

 dee and mustard. Thus the several grains and pulses of different 

 natural families do not interfere with each other's welfare, a fact 

 attempted to be accounted for by modern cultivators, in the suppo- 

 sition thai in mixed cultivation where plants are associated of various 

 natural families, each particular kind derives dissimilar inorganic 

 matter from the earth, for their own particular nutrition: that which 

 is rejected by one sort being appropriated by another. 



Staple Vegetable Products. 



The principal staple vegetable productions are wheat, bajree, jow- 

 arree, chenna, sugar, tobacco, rice, tour, kuldee, and hemp. 



Wheat ^^^^ adapted for wheat, is the rich loamy 



soil of the plains where it requires no irrigation, un- 

 less in great droughts. The varieties grown are the bunsee, pote- 

 ah, and kuteah, the first named being the finest kind but needs 

 irrigatioa, and is therefore less generally cultivated than the last 

 which is raised in vast quantities, particularly in the districts of 

 Phoolmurree. Gandapoor, and Untoor. Bunsee, which is a black 

 bearded Tariety, is grown in some places on the higher lands, but 

 ^Tcs place to sugar cane, which is there found a more remunerative 

 crop. 



The outturn of all dry crops in 1846 was very short and scanty, in 

 consequence of the little rain that fell, and, what was worse, having 

 been preceded by three remarkably dry seasons. The quantity of land 

 under wheat cultivation in that year was 89,094 beegahs 15 punds, 

 prodncing 32,008 pullas 30 seers, the net value of which at the 

 average price of 7 rs. la. 1 p. per pullah, gives 226,230 rs. 6 as. 

 9 p., a price double that of usual years. So light were the crops, 

 that the return did not average beyond 43 seers per beegah, or some- 

 thing less than a bushel and a half; the bushel being calculated at 

 64 lb., this would give nearly three bushels to the acre. In the north 

 of India, com lands return from 16 to 44 bushels per acre the 

 average return in England being 27 bushels. 



* Vide letter tmm H BeU, Esq , to the Asricaltaia! Societv of India 



