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BANGALORE

DISTRICT.

63

7032; Axekal, 5995; SuKRAVARPET, 5840; Devanhalli, 5774 and Closepet, 4832. Including Bangalore town and cantonment,



there are seventeen municipalities in the District, with an aggregate

municipal revenue in i88o-8r of;^2i,77o, of which amount Bangalore itself

credited with

is

and the

of Savandriig

pilgrimage,

of

place

higher

both

are

The


 * ,£'2o,466.

yet

celebrated

rock-fortress

of Sivaganga, a frequented

hill

situated

the

in

north

-

west of

the

District.

Agriculture. ‘

dry

’

staple

—The

principal cultivation of the

District

consists of

The

being comparatively neglected.

great food (Cynosurus corocanus), which also furnishes the necessary Various millets and pulses are grown, and a the cattle.

crops,

rice

is I’agi

fodder for

Rice is chiefly sown in the low-lying areas beneath large but the out-turn is and in the neighbourhood of wells somewhat uncertain, and the growing crop is liable to blight. The chief oil-seeds raised are gingelli (Sesamum orientale) and the castor-oil wheat.

little

tanks,



Mulberry cultivation

plant.

The most

for

much

the support of silkworms has

Opium and poppy

declined in recent years.

are cultivated in certain

is sugarcane, which and highly manured. Vegetables, both of indigenous and European sorts, are largely grown for the markets of Bangalore and Madras and the example of the Lai Bagh in Bangalore

tracts.

valuable of the ‘wet’ crops

requires to be well cared for



town has led to the introduction of many flowering plants from England. The average rates of rent, in 1 880-8 r, per acre of land suited for rice,

was

12s. qd.

3s.; fibres, 2S.





wheat, 13s. qfd. inferior grains, 2s. ii-|d. oil-seeds, 23s. 3d.; and tobacco, ns. The average

produce per acre of land, of inferior grains,

2611

cane,

pounds, was of

in

580; of

oil-seeds,

and of tobacco,





sugar-cane,

agricultural statistics for 1881

433

of



fibres,

The

194 pounds.

—Area under

1409

rice,



of wheat, 970 ; 120; of sugar-

following are the

39.485 acres; wheat, 13; other food-grains, 467,863; oil-seeds, 22,846; sugar-cane, 2170; tobacco, 664 vegetables, 4952; mulberry, 4450; cocoa-nut and areca:

rice,



nut,

8077



and 65,095 ploughs

carts,

The agricultural stock is returned at 12,183 number of tanks at 3430. The current in 1880-81, per maund of 80 lbs., were, for

178 acres.

lac,

the



prices ruling in the District rice, 6s.

8s.



8|d.



wheat, 6s. pd.

gram, from

45s. 9d.

wages



6s. to

2s.





poppy-seeds, 12s. 3d.;

for skilled labour is 6d.

per day.

Cows and

cotton, 49s. 3d.

ragi.,

The number

2s.

4W.

and

to is.



salt,

6d.



of domestic animals

sugar, 20s. 7^d.



pulses, 4s.

to

5s. 9s.

9|d.



The



salt,

tobacco,

of

rate

unskilled, from 3d. to 6d. is

estimated as follows



2112; donkeys, Elephants and camels 10,608 sheep and goats, 269,298; pigs, 1083. A few horses are are only kept by the Commissariat Department bred by the silladdrs from country mares and Government stallions,

bullocks, 307,581;

horses,

743; ponies,