510 Staiistics of the Circar of Dowlutahad. [No. 36, 



pul. 1 md. 30 srs. and yielding a return of rs. 6,236-13-3 at the rale 

 of 11 rs. 0 as. 9 p. per puUah. 



The weed is prepared for market as follows : the matured leaves 

 are plucked, and spread out in layers in long beds upon the ground, 

 where they remain for ten or twelve days ; after which they are turn- 

 ed over, and continue so exposed for another like period, when they 

 receive, on the last day, a plentiful sprinkling of water, administered 

 morning, noon, and evening ; before the sun rises the following 

 morning they are all gathered up and piled in heaps, having heavy 

 weights placed above to flatten them down, and in this condition they 

 are allowed to ferment for four and five days, when tlie weights are 

 removed, and the heaps opened, the leaves are then freed of their 

 stalks, and smoothed into bundles, weighing from two to four seers 

 each. The class of people who follow this business are generally 

 bearers. 



j^.^g This grain is very sparingly cultivated in all the 



districts, and, generally speaking, is of a coarse and 

 large description, reckoned extremely indigestible by the natives ; an 

 exception however occurs to this in the kind grown at Durungabad, 

 which is fine and small, and considered of a very superior descrip- 

 tion. This cultivation is mostly found in the largest quantities at 

 Untoor, Saitoonda, Phoolmurree and Koottabad. It is planted out 

 in beds during the rains, which are flooded every eight or ten days ; 

 the land having previously been prepared by ploughing and manur- 

 ing, fifteen cart loads of manure being given to every beegah. It 

 requires weeding three times, whilst the crop is growing, and is ripe 

 in six months. It requires ten or eleven seers to sow a beegah. 



Rice lands occupy 4,149 beeg. 9 pds. and return a produce of 

 2,160 pul. 1 md. 5 srs., yielding 10,044 rs. 6 as. 4 p. at the average 

 rate, 4 rs. 10 as. 4| p. per pullah, 



^^^^ This grain is generally sown as a mixed crop, 



though not invariably so : on this account there will 

 arise some difficulty in assigning to this and all mixed crops, the cor- 

 rect amount of land occupied. It is necessary to mention this cir- 

 cumstance as the district officers forward to me their statements of 

 the produce, as though they were unmixed crops, and are therefore 

 given by me according to their calculation. In Walloog and Gan- 

 dapoor this very useful pulse is raised in rather large quantities, the 

 soil being there well adapted for its culture, being light and rich. 



