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 BAREILLY.

142

pastoral class, 261,320; (5) manufacturing and industrial class, 60,812; (6) indefinite and non-productive (including 20,265 general labourers,

and 179,909 male Agriculture

.

children,

—The

soil

and

unspecified), 200,174.

of Bareilly

is

divided into upland and lowland,

the latter consisting chiefly of the alluvial basins watered by the rivers

Dioranian, Nakalia, Dogora, Baigul, and Ramganga.

Some

of these

and

low-lying tracts are covered twice a year by rich crops of wheat

sugar-cane

others,



more sandy and

The

crop of linseed or melons. usually the

most productive,

less fertile,

produce only a single

higher levels of the alluvial region are

as the inundations deposit their fine

silt

and vegetable mould at a distance from the central channels, while nearer the main stream, sand and shingle render cultivation comparatively The harvests are those common to the rest of Upper India. fruitless. The khartf or autumn crops are sown after the first rain in June, and gathered in October or

November



may even be

early rice

harvested at

The The spring crops are sown in October or November, and reaped in March Manure is or April they consist of wheat, barley, oats, and pulses.

the end of August, but cotton

is

not ripe for picking

till

February.

other autumn staples are jodr., bdjrd, moth, and inferior food-grains.



it can be obtained, for both crops; and land is allowed to whenever the cultivator can afford it. Owing to the abundant and the regularity of the Christmas showers, combined with

used, where lie

fallow

rainfall,

the nearness of water to the surface, irrigation the Doab. tions,

is

it

is

not so necessary as in

Moreover, as rents are often paid in kind by fixed proporasserted that the cultivators will not take the trouble to

when they know that they must share the resulting profit with landlord. Out of 761,734 acres of cultivated land in the District

irrigate,

their

61,414 were cultivated by the owners; 513,392 acres were held by tenants with riglits of occupancy; and 186,928 acres by in i88r,

tenants-at-will.

Money 5s.

rents are usual in all the southern pargands, ranging from

5|d. to IIS. 3§d. per acre, according to situation

north,

rents

are

paid in kind.

agriculturists in 1881

of

2 ’9

1

was returned

The

acres each.

The



but towards the

number of

adult male

at 261,320, cultivating

an average

total

total population,

however, wholly dependent

numbered 715,785, or 69'43 per cent, of the District Of the total District area of 1614 square miles, 1523 square miles are assessed for Government revenue, of which 1127 are actually under cultivation, and 381 cultivable, the remainder being uncultivable waste. Total amount of Government assessment, including cesses and rates levied on the land, ^159,521, or an average of on the

soil

population.

4s. 4-|d.

per cultivated acre

cesses, ;z^28i,933, or

following

are

the



total rental paid

an average of

ordinary rates

75.

by

cultivators, including

4|d. per cultivated acre.

of wages



— Coolies

The

and unskilled