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 PAR 105 The sheep are shorn three tinies in the course of the year-viz., in the months of Asárh (June-July), Kartik (October-November), and Phágun (February March). The beayiest fleece falls to the Kártik shearing, and the lightest in Phágun. The annual weight of wool yielded by a single sheep varies from one and a half to two and a half pounds. About two pounds represents a fair average, and this quantity is consumed in the manufacture of the small blanket "kamli" of such universal use. The average price of these small blankets is now twelve annas. That of the larger ones "kammal" Re. 1-10-0. Of the former, about ten years ago, two could be purchased for the rupee; while a good heavy blanket of the larger description could be had for the same sum. In this district the shepherds themselves manufacture the wool into blankets. It is on this account that wool is not much exported as a staple. The "baipáris" or itinerant traders drive a brisk trade with the shepherds of Bihár. About the month of June the shepherds receive advances of money from the baipáris, and by the end of October or beginning of November the blankets are ready, when the purchasers come and carry them off. These traders chiefly come from Jaunpur, Azamgarh, and Gorakhpur. Hides and horns.-Hides and horns are principally exported from the Salon tahsil.* This is probably attributable to the fact of there being a larger Muhamadan population here than in other parts of the district, and in consequence a greater consumption of animal food. This trade goes entirely across the Ganges. In return prepared skins are imported froia Cawnpore and Allahabad which are manufactured into the “moths" or leathern buckets used for wells, and also into the coarser kinds of native shoes. Ghi-Ghí is extensively prepared and consumed in the district of Par- tabgarh, and forins by no means an unimportant item of trade. The export of this article largely exceeds the import; at the same time that the quality of the latter is very much inferior to that of the former. Detail of Exports and Imports for 1873. EXPORTS. IMPORTS, Article. Quantity, Value. Article. Quality Value. . 2,368 7,953 543 6 722 be Mds. 4,275 864 1,135 841 2,599 22,070 84,387 On Re. 89,067 14,688 8,670 10,895 5,331 1,19,263 59,375 Sugar Gur Spices Wheat Edible grains Lac Opium Oilseeds Horned cattle Firewood Country cloth and matorials. 100 23,722 Cotton cleaned 23.308 Do. uncleaned Sugar ce 2,19,837 Spices 6,55,375 Edible graips 9,019 Salt 11,200 | Metals 2nd hard- 5,548 ware. 33,895 English.piece-goods, 10,942 European miscella- 8,050 acous goods. 18,940 3,05,67! 330 1,720 1,122 9,886 1,700 Salt 8,289 68,731 14 Ghi . 12,390 6,475 Oil Tutal 4,05,691 . 1 055,620 Tolat Now included in the Rae Barcli district, 14