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 HAR 23 STATEMENT OF PRICES. Retail sale, quantity per rupee. Articles, July, 1669. August, Septem- October, Novem- Jaudary, Febru- 1869, ber, 1869. 1869. ber, 1869. 1870. ary, 1870. M. B. CM. R. c. M. & c. M. s. c. M. a. c. M. s. c. M. &. c. 0 11 14 0 10 12 0 1 0 0 9 81 0 9 120 10 40 10 9 Wheat, Ist quality. Ditto, and quality ... Gram, ditto 012 2011 011 3 09 110 10 4 0 10 12 0 10 14 .. 0 12 10 0 10 14 0 10 12 09 609 4 0 10 O O 10 4 Bájra 3. 0 16 12 0 17 44. sa 0 0 17 12 0 18 3 Juár 027 0 0 20 0 Did ... ol o 18 40 16 8 Arhar 018 . 8 0 11 12 11 10 26 0 0 10 0 0 11 12 Urd 010 60 9 100 9 4 0 Il O 10 8 0 16 O 16 0 Magúr 441 13 8 0 12 8 0 12 24 7 0 0 4 4 0 10 4 14. Múng 0 ee. 7 12 07 40 8 7 90 . 9 5 O 17 BO 17 ) olo ! 30 Rice, 2nd quality .. 0 8 4 0 7 31 0 7 8 II O 9 121 0 10 12 0 11 4 Food.—The food of the people is much the same as in the rest of Oudh. They take two meals a day, one at noon, the second at sun-down. The food grains are mainly maize, kodo, bájra, juár made into bread, barley, and gram parched and eaten dry, pottage of peas, moth and urd. Fish ought to be abundant, owing to the number of rivers and lakes, but on account of the dearness of salt they are, as appears from the following extracts, used as manure at one time of the year, while there is a scarcity during the remain- ing months :- The Collector of Hardoi reports—"Breeding and very young fish are des- troyed without discrimination and to a great extent. They are caught in nets and baskets in jhíls, tanks,and rivers at all seasons, but in greater quan- tity during the rainy season, and especially at its close. The smallest size of the mesh of nets employed is one-sixth of an inch. Traps are also used to collect fish of the smallest size, and are made of reeds. Were it politic, there would be no difficulty in regulating the size of the mesh of nets, but as he does not consider such a time has arrived, he refrains from suggesting what size of meshes be should consider advisable in his district. When fish are scarce in hilly districts, and as well elsewhere, there appears to be no objection against probibiting their capture for a limited period when they are breeding." The settlement officer of Hardoi in 1868 complained “that there is no close season for fish here; they are caught every day of the year. Further, the meshes of the nets are made of any size, and occasion- ally fish are intoxicated or half-poisoned by a jungle fruit termed mainphal ; but this can only be done in still water ponds and the like. Some land-