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There are 19,113 beeg. 13 pds. of this cultivation, producing 

 5,009 pul. 1 md. 10 srs. and yielding 23,672 rs. 12 as. 3 p., rating 

 the average price of one puilali at 4 rs. 11 as. 7 p. 



„ .X. Much of this is ffrown, and very frequently as 



Kuldee, Carthamus & ' j ^ j 



Tinctorius. a mixed crop, it succeeds well in the rich soils of 



Phoolmurree, Untoor, and Gundapoor, where it is extensively cul- 

 tivated. 



There are 18,648 beeg. 14|- pds. occupied with this plant, the pro-^ 

 duceof which is 6,602 pul. 0 mds. 24 seers, whose value is 22,294 rs. 

 at the average rate of 3 rs. 6 as. 0 p. per pullah. 

 j^^^^ Little of this is grown as an article of export, ex- 



cepting at Phoolmurree ; in many places only culti- 

 vating sufficient for the wants of the district. There are 3,457 beeg. 

 under cultivation, producing 1,045 puis. 2 mds. 20 srs., the value of 

 which is 7,045 rs. 7 as. 5 p. at the rate of 6 rs. 11 as. 8|- p. per 

 pullah. ^ 



The above are the principal staple productions. In closing this 

 part of the inquiry, I will briefly notice one or two articles which 

 are not of sufficient note to be thus rated. 



^ . There are 936 bees'. 12i pds. employed for raising- 



Opium. & ^ 1 r J a 



this article the produce of which is 11 puis. 2 mds. 1^ 

 srs. yielding 8,621 rs. 2 as. 11 p. as its value, rating the seer at 

 6-2-3|. It is grown in the largest quantity at Untoor, and Phool- 

 murree. 



The poppy requires the richest sort of land, and constant irriga- 

 tion. It is planted towards the close of the rains, and comes to per- 

 fection in four or five months, during which period it receives the 

 unceasing attention of the ryot. The sites for its production will 

 generally be found in the valleys where running streams abound, as 

 well as richer and deeper soils. The same system of preparing the 

 land is adapted as that observed for sugar cane. The land is either 

 divided into furrows, or small plots, and sown and watered once in 

 four days for the first fortnight: from that time till it flowers, which 

 it does in another six weeks, it is watered but once a week, and, after 

 flowering, only once in eight days. After the plants have sprung up, 

 they are thinned out, leaving a hand's breadth between each, and are 

 well weeded once a month. In about three or four month's time, the 

 capsule will have reached the most favorable period of yielding its 



