1849.] Statistics of the drear o f Dotclutabad. 



The fields intended for ^heat are left quiet during the rains, then 

 ploughed up ones, and the bukkur passed and repassed twice to pul- 

 verize the soil for the receptioa of seed, which is put in with the 

 drill plough in the proportion of tea seers of bunsee, or five seers of 

 kuteah, to the beegba, ripening at the end of February : kuidce is 

 Eometime.? sown broad cast amongst the crop, but more frecuer.tiv 

 drilled in at every sixth or seventh furrow. Numerous bread sha.iavv 

 Tvatercourses are scattered about the field for the purpose of well 

 flooding the land preparatory to sowin?, as well as for watericg the 

 standing crop in times of drought. The crop is twice weeded and 

 reaped by the sickle. It is allowed to stand too long after it has ri- 

 pened, a practice which must injure its farinaceous qualities for many 

 economical purposes, by converting its starchy properties to woody 

 fibre, as for instance in the preparation of an article cf diet called 

 " saviya" a species of vermicelli where the bunsee variety is chosen, 

 because it possesses a lar^^er per centaze of gluten. The v^ay ir is 

 made is by soaking wheat in water, and then rubbing the hiisK. ofi" in 

 a cloth ; after this it is dried, ground, and finely sifted ; what dees not 

 pass the sieve is called " soojee" or " rolling the fine fiour sifted 

 through is kneaded into dough with a small quantity of salt, in the 

 proportions of a quarter of a seer, to five seers of fiour : the whole is 

 then well levigated with a wooden bat for three hoars, when, having 

 been sufficiently worked, it is rolled with the hands upon a board 

 into thread like forms, occasionally moistening the palms with ghee, 

 to facilitate the operatioa. 



Bajree is 2-rcwn lareelv in Gundaooor, Phoolmur- 

 Bajree ' ^ . ^ • . " 



rre, Byzapcor, Untoor, Wallocj and Hursool, the 



amount in the Circar altogether being 1,97,923 beeg. 15 pis. pro- 

 ducing 59,772 pul. 2 mds. 10 srs. which, at the average cf 4 rs. 

 13 as. 1 p. per pullab, gives a net return of 2,S7,S96 rs. 9 as. 1 p. 

 This crop does not require the best descriptions of soils, but fre- 

 quently is found on them as a khureef crop, being cccupied by 

 cultivation of different kinds, in the rubbee season. It forms the 

 principal article of food for the population and their cattle. Tns 

 seed is sown generally during the middle cf the rains, some times 

 alone, or mixed, and is ready to be cut in five months. The Kcon- 

 bees are busily employed in the hot season preparing their land in- 

 tended for rain crop«. and after the first fa'Is work it with the buk- 



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