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
