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 CHAPTER II. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. Towns-Cropa--Recent decrense of cultivation-List of cereals-Food grains-Oil aeedsam Harvests Poppy and tobacco-Agricultural operations-Irrigation of crops—Machinery for raisiug water-Rotation of crops-Profits of cultivation-Proper cost of suitable food-Rents, present and foriner-Prices - Famines—Blights-Droughits and floods— Food of the people-Condition of the agriculturists as regards clothing, manufacture, and trade-Minerals-Roads and communications-Weights and measures-Rate of interest. Towns.-Kheri is a rural district. There are only tlxee towns with a population above 5,000, 23 with a population above 2,000, and 148 with a population above 1,000. Towns with above 5,000 population. Nume. f'opulation, Oel with Dbakus 6,025 Muhandi 6.06 Kheri 7,Out Towns with above 2,000 population. Name, Population. Name. l'opulation. PO e. i vrapeabad Barwar Gola Palia Bijwa Parhwa Yarlari Kikihti Kthia Icúbi Dhanrabra Sinirbi 3,032 3,607 2,948 4,459 2,271 3,237 3,677 2,547 2,604 2,950 4,611 2,836 Kafára Matera Barágáan Kan!ár flera Harsinghpur Isinagar Lakhimpur Singáhi klán Singahi Khord 2,854 2,349 2,8173 2.152 2.201 2,601 2,163 3,672 2,696 ... ED .. 400 Crops.—The principal crop in Kheri rice, of which it has 166,811 acres, being only second to Gonda in the area under tliis cror; the others are as follows: Crops. Acres. Average crop per acre. .. 135,081 861,133 29,380 41,065 6,739 400 500 180 800 80 10 re Wheat Other grains Oilseeds Sugar Cotton Opium Indigo Fibres Tobacco Vegetables 49 + 300 419 6,265 6,644 600 .. Total 1,242,688