Imperial Gazetteer Punjab Delhi Division

· 1907 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1jungle tract o! Budhlada, 15 outlying villages in the north of

2Fatal abad tahsil, is sometimes classed as a fifth tract, but

3resembles the Rohi, Taking the District as a whole,

4only 9 per cent, of the cultivation is irrigated, and the

5rainfall is therefore of the utmost importance ; on the rains

6of June and July depend the sowings of all the autumn

7crops, and on that of August and September the ripening of

8the autumn and the sowing of the spring crops. Until recently

9the autu;mn harvest was the mainstay of the District, but

10of late years, owing to the good prices obtained for wheat,

11the spring harvest has taken the leading place, and the

12best season is one in which there is heavy rain at the end

13of August and all through September,

14The area for which details are available from the

15revenue records of 1 903-04 is 5,180 square miles, as shown

16below •

17TahsU «

18Total.

19Cultivated.

20Irrigated.

21Culturabld

22waste.

23Hissar

248ro

25623

2653

2798

28Hansi

29**'

30799

31690

32180

3360

34Bhiwani

35...

367 SO

3760 3>

386

39iixy

40Fatah ah ad

41* 179 I

421,300

4369

44iC$

45Sirsa

461,642

47945

4875

49300

50Total

51... ■

525,1

534,t6r

543^3

55733

56The principal staples of the spring harvest are gram and

57barley, the areas under which were in 1903-04, 478 and 168

58square miles respectively. Wheat covered only 109 square

59miles* The chief /food-gram of the autumn harvest is the spiked

60millet, which occupied 929 square miles, Great millet comes

61next in importance with 38 square miles and then pulses with

62* 75 - Practically all the sugar and cotton grown is irrigated, with

63Him*.

64District;

65Chief agricttl~

66tural statistics*

67and principal

68crops#