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 LUC 329 Statement of retail prices current for the months of July, August, Sep- tember, October, November, 1869, and January, February, 1870, in ser's per mupee. Articles, July, 1869. August, Septem- ter, 1869. 1869. Novcm- October, ber, January, 1869. 1889. 1870. Febru. ary, 1870. Mds. s.c. Mds. s.c. Mds, a.c. Mds. s. e. Mda, s. c Mds, s.c. Mds...C 384 Whent, Ist quality Ditto, 2nd ditto Gram, 2nd ditto Bájra Juár Arbar Urd Masúr Múng Rice, and quality 0 12 3 0 11 13 0 11 10 9 4 OIO 4 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 12 7 0 12 1 0 11 0 0 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 0 18 3 0 18 7 0 12 4 0 10 3 0 10 2 0 10 10 10 9 0 10 10 1 2 0 10 9 0 15 5 0 14 12 0 18 2 0 18 11 0 12 12 0 12 11 0 14 9 0 13 14 0 16 6 0 18 0 0 18 6 0 14 14 O 13 14 0 12 12 0 0 8 0 9 14 11 0 0 12 8 0 11 10 1 2 0 10 0 7 14 0 81 0 16 12 0 14 14 0 13 14 0 12 0 0 1 0 0 819 0 9 14 0 to 0 0 10 0 0 9 0 9 6 0 9 0 0 7 10 0 13 0 0 15 0 0 14 0 09 14 0 9 12 0 9 10 0 11 90 il 4 0 12 8 0 13 2 I. ..4 In connexion with the condition of the people, some remarks on their food, its price, their wages, and their means to purchase it are required. Food. The food of the people is the same as that detailed in Kheri, except that pulses—urd, moth, arhar—are perhaps more largely used, and rice less. There is a crop nearly every month in the year. In January the sugarcane is cut, in February the tobacco, in the first half of March the peas come in, then the gran. Wheat and barley are cut in the second half of March. In May melons come in, and are largely consumed. In June jethi dhán is cut. There is nothing in July or the first half of August except unripe maize cobs and sánwán a minor crop. With the 20th August come in the Indian-corn or bari juár and mendwa. About the 10th September kodo ripens. In October chhoti juár and rice; in November bájra, múng, moth, urd, and jarhan or transplanted rice; in December sugarcane. From September to March inclusive the principal food of the masses consists of maize kodo, and rice; the last two generally as pottage, with the addition of some lentiles, such as lobia or urd, either to the rice or bread, From April to August it is gram, barley, peas, arhar, &c. In Lucknow, however, the food of the people does not correspond so strictly with the proximate previous harvest as in other districts. There are greater stocks of grain in store, as there is more capital in this district. People eat twice a day. A ser of maize, fourteen chhatáks of peas, or thirteen chhatáks of rice are considered enough for a day's food for an ordinary labouring man, under-sized as they are. Fish is eaten by the majority of the people. The following extracts must be received with caution: the supply of fish may be equal to the demand at the price asked, but the supply during the greater part of the year very limited indeed is