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BANGALORE
DISTRICT.
The
cattle are of
but the majority are imported.
and the rearing of goats thrive well
the wool of the
and only used
description,
horse
much used
Buffaloes are not
to-do rdyats.
rugs.
An
an excellent breed,
bulls for sale forms a favourite occupation of well-
of a coarse
is
manufacture of native blankets and
for the
made by Government
attempt
Sheep and
for ploughing.
former, however,
the
introduce
to
merino breed of sheep has not proved successful. The manufacture of cotton cloths and coarse Manufactures, etc.
—
woollen blankets, or kamblis,
The
District. silk,
the in
and with
industry in
of raw silk
to
confined to
is
and has much declined
section of the community,
years owing
parts of the
all
woven with some admixture of
epidemic diseases
among
indigenous
the
In 1866 an Italian gentleman imported a superior breed of
worms.
worms from Japan, and Kengeri
common
a
The production
silk borders.
Muhammadan recent
is
finer sorts of cloth are
established a large
filature
at
the town of
but the enterprise failed from the same cause.
of durable texture and costly patterns,
is
Silk cloth,
woven by the palvegdrs of
Bangalore, and sold by weight at the rate of
Other
los. a told.
8s. to
and steel wire for In the Magadi tdbik, a musical instruments, made at Channapatna. good deal of iron is worked in the native fashion, and some steel. The handicrafts of Bangalore town are those necessarily found in a Carpet-making is carried on with great success in the great city. central jail, and the carpets there made, after Persian and Turkish 4s. per square yard. designs, sell in Europe at prices ranging from The commerce of the District, which is carried on both with the east and west coasts, centres at the busy bdzdr of the native quarter specialties are the lacquered ware, glass ornament',
The other principal marts of trade are Channapatna, E)od-ballapur, Sarjapur, Vadagenhalli, and Tyamagondal. A cattle fair held annually at Huskur, a village in the Anekal tdluk, is attended by about 3000 persons, and 10,000 bullocks are brought for The Bangalore branch of the Madras Railway runs through the sale. of Bangalore.
District for about
the
Mysore
city to
20 miles, with
State Railway
its
terminus at Bangalore town; and
— opened
Mysore, for about 42 miles.
July 1882,
in
— from
There are 51
1
Bangalore
miles of
made
roads in the District. In the year 1881-82 the total revenue of Bangalore Administration.
—
District
revenue,
- ^338q.
by 3651
amounted
The
to
items
chief
were
— Land
- ^54, 135 ; law and justice,
In 1870-71, the number of separate estates was 932, owned During 1880, the registered proprietors or coparceners.
^93,864
dbkdr'i
or
excise,
average daily prison population of the central
were females.
These
figures
of the District population
show
but
it
jail
was 837, of
i'25 persons in
jail
must be recollected
whom
for every
55
1000
that the central
