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 G. F. KEATINGE The soil in this village is lighter than in case No. 7 and there are 125 acres of garden land growing vegetables, ginger, chillies, etc. The rest cotton and jowari. sub-division and in case No. 7. garden land, and pronounced, e.g. [Survey No, 69 Survey No, 24-- is dry crop land, growing I will be seen tha in this village the fragmentation of the land is greater than This is connected with the existence of it is in such land that it is mos Aret Acres Gunth 7 4 9 5 divided into 4 plots. divided into 7 plots. The people say the rights in the holders of rights that as the garden land is sub.divided old wells are also sub.divided, and the in a single well repair the well jointly, This works fairly well up to a certain point, bug they say that the sub.division of the garden land certainly cheeks the making of new wells, and very few are now being made, though .ticere is plenty of suitable land where they might be made wth advantage if the land was not so sub. divided. Case Io, 9 In the garden villages of the Bulsar aud Jalalpur T&Iu. kas of the $urat District, where the pressure of the popula. tion on the land is greater, the sub. division and fragmen. tation are much more marked, The following statement gives details for some villages where it is very acute:-- Cultivated area Name of Village and usessmen! Gultivmted area ehssified Pardi Sandhpur  Acres 295 246' 47 ' 2 Mograwadi ... Acres 538 i 173 063 32 Bhd Vain... ' Acs 1,52a i101 t 1,186:236  Jalp,r Talulm Acres 1,192 666 i 612 Ils. 10,844! Acres 1,154 406 695 lts. 10,962 Acres 8,043 2,520 i Acres 1,898 1,117 Number Amslead ... Kaehholi ... Abrams ... Eru ... of 'Avem hol- land holders dlng per $3 100 38 122 122:321 114 58 23 i 91 281 i 6 82 258 109 i 210 133 150 443 319 ACers /,ere" 2'14 j2'ss 8'58 i ,t'41 3'43 3'61 4'74 4'71 5'49 6'78 3'53 4'1t I'61
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