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The total area is 40,821 acres the revenue paid to Government Rs. 1,02,104, and the rate per acre on an average is Rs. 2-8.

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The population consists chiefly of Bais and Brahman castes. The number of Musalmans is very small the total population amounts to

29,869.

The river Ganges flows past the southern boundary, and the river Gurdhoi, passing through the villages of Ghatampur and Bhagwantnagar, These rivers, however, do no good falls into the Ganges in this pargana. to the country, but a great deal of damage when they overflow their banks and sweep away aU the crops then growing. The soil is chiefly loam there is little sand and less clay. The principal autumn crops are cotton, rice, millet, urd, miing, vetches, and some other small grains the spring crops are wheat, barley, gram, birra (barley and gram), arhar a kind of pulse, oil-seeds and sugarcane.



The yield of the autumn crops depends on the amount of rainfall in the rainy season. If heavy, it sweeps away everything already grown upon the soil, while, on the other hand, deficiency makes the crops poor and scanty, ^the young plants die away at once for want of their watery nourishment, and then the cultivators are sadly at a loss. The spring crops depend, on the other hand, on the skill and labour of man the more they are irrigated, the heavier they are. The irrigation in this pargana is carried on by wells, the water being found at an average depth of 52 feet. The climate is on the whole good. The months of Bhadon (SeptemberOctober) and Kuar (October-November), as results of the change of season, bring with them at times a sort of fever and ague, but this is also not

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There are six markets in this pargana, Daundia Khera, Sh^gor, Alipur Hisampur, Baksar, Dhaurwara. The first is held on Sundays and Wednesdays ;the second, fourth, and sixth on Saturdays and Tuesdays the third on Mondays and Thursdays, and the fifth on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Of all these none need particular mention ordinary sales in com and vegetables, &c., are carried on the prescribed days, and nothing of peculiar importance is sold. Corn, if needed on an occasion of dearth is brought from Lucknow or the adjacent districts of Cawnpore and Fatehpur by boat vid the Ganges. There is no market here for the sale of cattle the common kinds are generally kept by the residents for the purpose of ploughmg, but if needed for carriage, are brought from Agra, Farukhabad Nanpara, Fatehpur, or Makanpur fair. Thousands of wild cattle roam at will in the " kachhar " or low land lying on the banks of the Ganges they are a source of great damage to the crops day and night they are being driven off by the watchmen, and the fields are guarded from them on all sides by deep ditches that these animals cannot cross. In the days of the



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