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120 MYSORE DISTRICT. 11 absence of thorough-bred qualities, are known as hallikár and madhugiri. The total live stock of Mysore District (1884) is returned at 603,927 cows and bullocks, 212 horses, 3975 ponies, 7280 donkeys, 698,754 sheep and goats, and 5725 pigs. It has been observed that the jungle tribe of Kurubas are in the habit of domesticating the young of the wild hog. Manufactures, etc. The chief industries of Mysore District are concentrated at Mysore city, and at Ganjám, the modern quarter of Seringapatam. The articles made are cotton cloth of fair quality, kamblis or country blankets, coarse paper, and sugar. Cotton-weaving and the manufacture of pottery and brass-ware are carried on in most villages, to meet the local demand. The winding of raw silk is a declining industry. At Hunsur there were formerly Government factories connected with the Commissariat Department; and at the present time leather articles (boots, knapsacks, etc.), fine blankets, and carts continue to be produced there by workmen who maintain the training they received. The tannery is now in the hands of an enterprising native. At the same place, also, there are extensive pulping works for coffee, which is sent from the Coorg plantations. PALHALLI was formerly the site of another important factory, known as the Ashtagram Sugar Works, where the jaggery produced by the ráyats from sugar-cane and the date-palm was refined. This factory obtained ds at several exhibitions in Europe, but it has not been abandoned. The principal exports are food-grains, oil-seeds, betel-leaf, sugar, silk, tobacco, hides, sandal-wood, and sheep; the imports are piece-goods, hardware, salt, ghí, cotton, and wheat. There is a great demand for grain in Coimbatore and the Nilgiri Hills, and a considerable trade is conducted with Bangalore and Madras. In the 31 mines of the District the output of iron in 1880-81 was worth £462. Local traffic is carried on chiefly at weekly inarkets, and a large number of the traders are Musalmáns. The merchants residing at the town of Mysore belong for the most part to the Kunchigar caste. The chief annual fairs are held at SeringAPATAM, GANJAM, and CHUNCHANKATTA. The total length of State roads is 178 miles, and of District roads 637 miles. About 46 miles of the Mysore State Railway passes through Mandya and Ashtragrám táluks to Mysore city, the present terminus of the line. Administration. In 1880-81, the total revenue of Mysore District amounted to £149,978. The chief item was land revenue, £100,261. By 1883, the total revenue of the District had increased to £194,355, the chief items being-land revenue, £125,029 ; forests, £13,108; and abkári or excisc, £32,197. The District is divided into 14 tuluks or fiscal divisions, with 117 hoblis or minor fiscal units. In 1870-71,