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are Rs. 2-8 per local bigha for garden cultivation,—this will be Rs. 12-8 per acre as stated above; and Re. 1-8 per local bigha for good ordinaryland, i. e., Rs. 7-8 per acre.

Rents will be further considered under

The

Condition of the people."

wheat and rice. The area under cultivation is 606,080, including dufasli lands; the area of crops is about 750,000 acres, of whiph the following are

staple crops are

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The cultivation of sugarincreasing; there is a very large area now under opium; bajra and kodo, common crops in western Oudh, are almost unknown

cane

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are as already described in Sitapur and Bara Banki, except that near Fyzabad the rate is raised by the proximity of Wages. European troops and Government works of all kinds. Near Fyzabad the rate of pay at the wells is now five local sers of grain per day the grain is urd or judr, selling at the rate of 40 local sers per If the labourer is paid in kodo, or unhusked rice, he will get 7^ rupee. When prices fall, he will get 7^ sers of maize ; his emoluments local sers. seem determined by a rough approximation to the grain equivalent of two But 1^ annas is a common day's wage throughout the district at annas. any distance from the capital. In Fyzabad masons get four annas. Wages on the whole are higher in Fyzabad than in the western districts. This is probably due to there being a great number of Brahmans and Chhattris, who will not drive ploughs, and are generally lazy : this causes a demand for day labourers and raises the pay.

Wages



The ten

years' grain rates return prepared for the Secretary of State is appended. This return is, however, defective in

Prices.

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does not exhibit the cheapest grains

used by the people; the rates given are in some cases not reliable lastly, the average of the year, is often a mean of very great extremes, which are not expressed in the average. I have dwelt on the progressive rise in the I will only here refer to the points which price of grain elsewhere.

are not apparent, or are incorrectly expressed in the grain returns. The food- vear here may conveniently commence with the cutting of the This is bari juar or Indian-corn. It is ready about first kharif harvest. the 6th of September, and forms the principal food' of the people along

with rice and urd for about seven months

till

1st April.