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162 KHE List of cereal food grains and oilseeds. Botinical dames. Local pames. English nymes. CUREL Food GRAINS. 4 pe Oats. Bamboo seed. OP Gram, Amaranthue quardhana Amet berley Avens sativa, Bambusa -spicate hevalier harley Cajaous indicus Cicer arietínum Dolichos sinensis Ervuta lete EleDayde corocaba Hordeum hexastychun Hordeuin distycliui Lathyrus sativus Pisum sativum Phaseolus aconitifolius Prepana scrobiculatum Panicum fratnentaceutu Panicom italicum Pennicilaria spicata Sorghum vulgare Iriticum sativuin Zea Mays Anárdána. Jau Walaíti. Jaí. Bans. Jau dusauti! 3rhar. Chana, Lobia. Masúr. Mindwe or makra, Gurhi jan. Jau. Kesari Matur. Urd. kodo. Sanwán. Kakoo. Bajra. Juár (var. rcd). Gehen. Makkai. Bhatyaas Barley, Peas. Wheat, Maize. OILSEEDS, ... Argemone mexicana Bassin latifolia Celastrus paniculatus Croton tigliam Carthamus tinctorius Lipum usitatissimum PHpava somniferuar Sisamum indicum Sinapis nigra Sinapis glauca Kurwa, Mahni. Mál Kangni. Jamilgota. Barre, Kusum. Alsi Posta. Til. Crater. inflower, Linseed. Poppy. Mustard. Sarson. Harvests_There are two harvests in Kheri, the kharif and the rabi. The former cousists of various grains, rice, &c., which are sown from the heginning, of June, or whenever the rains have set in, to the end of August. The crops ripen in from three to four months. The principal kharíf crops are kodo, kákun, juár, bájra, másh, mung, and rice. The first crop, kodo, is cut about the end of September; the last, the jarban rice, about the beginning of November. The rabi crops are barley, wheat, gram, peas, arhar; they commence cutting peas about the 5th March, and in low- lying backward places the latest (barley) will not be harvested till the 5th May, while the sánwán is being cut till the middle of June. For. the mode of cultivating sugarcane see “Sitapur.” In this district account I have given details touching the cultivation of poppy aud tobacco, for both of which the soil offers every facility, and whose productions rapidly. incrcase.