—
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,
