Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1T Ponjab Gazettesr,

296 CHAP. 17. —PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

3Chapter IV, A. uncleanod cotton (é¢., with the send still adhering to the-fibre).

4—<-" — Ginned cotton would loan in. weight nearly two-thirde of this.

5Rita. tang ealed by the mclaska 5 ton sated wild Mage

6~stoe ing swe the inclusion of cotton i ign-

7Coin: tion, a method Aibiosl peouliur to that tahall Here tho)

8ie more uncertain «till, and inoquulities in the soll eaunot

9corrected by the application of manary, The ares under hi

10cotton Huctustes much, «nd Copra eee on whether there

11has been good rain in Fobruary. under irrigated cotton ia Ss

12vory stable from year to year.

13Jowke. Jowar is universally grown and covers larger ares than

14any other kharif crop, It is not manured and where allowed

15, to ripen is not irrigated, except in villages which have o

16well area, nnd }ittle bévdni land. The groen jowdr, which aa

17not allowed to ripen aud whick in grown for fodder only, at v4

18a time of the year (May und Jun») whon no other green fodder

19Git for atalled cattle is available, is irrigated both from wells

20and canols, But this forme buts emall part of what w shown

21in the returns aa fowdr, aud need not farther be noticed, The

22jowdr crop is sown at the beginning of duly alter the first heavy

23fallof monsoon ruin. This is one of the baxinet tines of tie year,

24and no effort is spared to get the seed into the groundat the

25most favourable opportunity. A srood deal of the seod is imported

26from the Jullundur Dodb and Ferosspore. Lt is sown mixed,

27* asarule, with moth and mung, [nh all onaes tho cultivator hopwa

28to obtain some grain from the fowir, except from that sown

29late in the season, though if the grain does not form properly

30he does not consider lumself much of a lower, He nob

31depend on the jowdr grain for food throughout the winter so muuh

32as the cultivator in some districts south of the Snilej, but he

33can hardly do without tho broad loured stale se fodder for hia

34cattle, Itis grown on the well-known dovdla rotation already

35described, the jumir being ipceie by mixed wheat and gran,

36or gram alone, and followed by a whole aa fallow after the:

37harvest in. October and November. Tho moth and maugiate

38with the jour, and the grain of the pulae is then separated, -

39The heads of jowér contuining the seed ere cut off, and beaten -

40or troddon to separate tho rain. The stalke are stacked. inthe

41field for a time todry and thin piled on the routs of hamees, :

42and other dry places, to be used os fodder throoghout the early -

43winter, Villages which lie near tho main se row en et

44aren of jower often sell it to men from the city, and this

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46ie ® not unimportant item in their income, But as winter draws .

47on, there is none to spare, and enol minn's store of it is carefally ;

48hushanded. Tho crop is known vithor a» joedtor shart, some-

49° times by the doable namo chari-joindr, bat there ie the mame

50which the fodder part of the plant is kuown. The ecuttle —

51# of the district are so dependent on jowdr for fond, at the tine’

527 of the year when the bullocks aro hardest worked, that » failaro :

53- _of the crop is quite » calemity. Fortunately it does not often —

54_ ooour, Rain in the first week of July, and steady rain at in-

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