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 20 HAR and diarrhoea. The preparation known as ordura-water is a valuable car- minative, useful in disguising the taste of nauseous drugs, and obviating their tendency to cause griping. The fruits of the Ptychotis Roxburghia- num are valued by the natives as a stomachic and carmanative. They partake of the properties of the former, but in aroma are ondoubtedly in- kerior.-(Pharm. of Indian.) The wild plant is said to be poisonous. It probably contains apiol, an oily liquid used as a substitute for quinine.--- Powell's Punj. Prod."-Drugs Useful Plants of India, page 360, "Syzygium jambolanum (Jamun). Economic use8.—The timber is fine, hard, and close-grained. The bark dyes excellent durable browns of various shades according to the mordant employed, or the strength of the decoction (Roxb. Wright). The tree attains its full size in forty years. The wood is dark-red, slightly liable to warp, but not subject to worms. It is used for agricultural implements (Balfour). It does not rot in water, and hence is used everywhere to line wells (Fleming). A communication was made to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Bengal, (Janu- ary 1874), stating that with the fruit called jámun the writer had made in Rắmpur Bauleah a wine that, for its qualities and taste, was almost similar to the winc made from the grape. The wine was very cheap, as from two maunds of the fruit oollected about one maund of wine was made, which cost altogether three rupees." — Drury's Useful Plants of Indiare, page 410. Agricultural statistics.--A plough with two oxen will cultivate six acres of loam or clay soil, but eight acres of sand. The capital required to cultivate a plough of land will be Rs. 30 for a pair bullocks, Rs. 15 for the nocessary implements, including a sugar-milī, Rs. 12 for the pur- chase of seed com, Rs. 18 for the family maintenance for three and a half months till the first of the kharif crops comes in September: total Rs. 75, A plough costs about Re, 1-8-0, including the share, the harrow, a log of wood, eight annas. The capital is a trifle; the profits of cultivation are just enough to cover the wage of labour. Prices.-I attach a list of the grain prices since 1835 at the prin. cipal mart in the district Mádhoganj. The average price of wheat and Bájra in the last three decennial periods has been as follows in sers per rupee : Bájra. 1841-1850 1851-1860 1861-1870 The average prices for the last ten years 1866--1870 are in sers per rupec : Wheat Bájra Barley Gram Black paddy These returns also show the remarkable fact commented on in the Kheri report, that bájra and the millet series are often sold to the poor by the Wheat $24 350 26.9 34.9 35.8 26-4 40 400 269 26.4 326 90.8 43-6 4.