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Rh tries, but it says nothing about more money being spent on roads and irrigation works.

The soils of the two divisions are very different. Those of Telingana are sandy, the plains there are covered with brushwood, the hills show no vegetation, and fantastic-shaped rocks and crags give to the scenery a wild and, in some places, weird appearance. The rivers run dry in the hot weather, and if water were not stored in tanks, little or no agriculture could be carried on. There are rive crops, but the light soil requires little ploughing and harrowing, and rice seems to be the only crop to which the cultivator pays much attention. The principal crops are rice, jowari, bajri, castor-oil seed, sesame, and pulses; and the ryots live on rice, jowari, and bajri — also goat flesh.

The Marathwara soil is very fertile — heavy and rich in the hilly parts and light and loamy in the valleys. Two crops only are raised. The Marathwara ryot weeds his wheat, cotton, linseed, and pulses crops carefully, and his food is bajri, jowari and wheat, varied with fish and goat flesh. Strong ploughs and harrows are used in Marathwara, and the work to be done in the fields is heavy and constant.