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On the Rent of Land in Hindustan. 
[Nov. 
VII .—On the Produce of the Soil, and Rent of Land, in Hindustan. 
In the following table, which has been drawn up from data collected in zillah— — . 
I have exhibited the produce per English acre of the several kinds of grain grown 
here. The Wheat and Barley are expressed in bushels and pounds; the other 
produce in pounds avordupois. The table, it will be seen, is the result of experi- 
ments conducted in twelve several divisions of the district. 
Div. 
Wheat, 
Bush. lbs. 
Barley. 
Bush . lbs. 
Gram. 
lbs. 
Rice. 
lbs. 
J otvar. 
lbs . 
Bajra. 
lbs. 
Gaojt/e, mix. 
ujWh.tfBar 
lbs. 
1 
18 
40 
18 
1757,4 
790, 
561,92 
210,72 
421,44 
2 
21 
53 
17 
19 
1627, 
1162,58 
842, 
— 
985,24 
3 
17 
4 
23 
42 
583,64 
900,8 
— 
632,1 
— 
4 
12 
60 
22 
26 
749,76 
1387,24 
464, 
657, 
916,72 
5 
13 . 
16 
12 
27 
870, 
864, 
263, 
— 
6 
15 
20 
22 
11 
1221, 
842, 
513,3 
526,8 
885,88 
7 
14 . 
7 
34 
3 
1404,8 
1794,2 
— 
— 
— 
8 
28 . 
31 
54 
10 
1295, 
1701, 
— 
— 
1487,5 
9 
18 
38 
25 
24 
1061, 
1658, 
517,44 
517, 
— 
10 
18 
55 
35 
2 
1137,36 
941,76 
1233,6 
812,4 
— 
11 
20 
5 
29 
45 
1327, 
1109, 
— 
707, 
— 
12 
24 
37 
— 
1155, 
1109, 
— 
1231, 
— 
Aver. 
18 
42 
28 
48 
1182,41 
1179,96 
688,71 
617,44 
919,35 
The average value of the gross produce of the average of Wheat, Barley, Gram, 
and Rice, at a mean price between the average of the 10 previous years, and that 
of the present, gives per acre. 
Wheat. 
s . d. 
21 0,8 
Barley. Gram. 
s. d. s. tl. 
15 2,67 15 11,44 
Rice. 
8. d. 
14 4,75 
Rent at J 7 0,2 5 0,89 5 3,81 4 9, 58 
The average returns in fold for the seed are as follows, — but it must be mentioned 
that the quantity’ of seed sown, has been, perhaps, incorrectly’ stated : and the results 
must, therefore, only be taken as an approximation to the truth. 
Wheat. Barley. Gram. Goojve. Rice. Baira. Jowar. 
8,93 11,43 9,36 7,13' 13,51 167,5 125,72 
The average produce of wheat in England is stated in Loudon’s Encvdopedia of 
Agriculture at 28 bushels, Seed 3i bushels, an 8fold return— Of Barley the aver- 
age produce of Great Britain at 28 bushels, seed 21 bushels, 12? return. In the 
same work it is stated, that the ordinary’ return of wheat in Savoy’, is from 3 to 5 
fold — near towns from 5 to 7 : and that before the revolution 44 told was regarded 
as the average return of wheat in France. 
Assuming the wages of a common day’ labourer in England at one shilling — he could 
purchase (when at 60s. the quarter) Silbs. of wheat. With the corresponding 
sum of 8 annas in this district (at the exchange of 2s. to the rupee, which has 
been used inthe above calcidations,) a labourer in this district can purchase 521bs. of 
wheat ; the relative prices are, therefore, as, 1 in England to 61 in this district. The 
wages of a common day labourer in this district are about one anna per diem , or 14 
pence English— which is at the rate of 1 here to 8 in England. The value of mo- 
ney, therefore, to the cultivating classes may be assumed as about seven times 
greater in this district than in England. 
Taking the average, therefore, of the rents of the four grand articles of produce, 
—Wheat, Barley, Gram, Rice; we have 5s. 6$rf. per acre, which multiplied by 7, 
gives 38s. 9id. the value of the rents per acre in English money at Indian value. 
But this is not altogether a fair criterion. Ont of 100 parts, allowing 57 to be 
cultivated with these articles, 38 parts with the inferior small grains and millets, and 
5 parts with Cotton and Sugarcane, we gain the following results. 
d. s. d. 
57 at 5 6i •= 
38 at 2 3 = 
5 at 10 3 = 
315 104 
85 6 
52 6 
} 
average, 4*. did. X 7 = 31s. l\d. compara- 
tive value of eac“ free acre. 
