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Punjab.

Date:: 1908

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Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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when Rs. 7,20,000 was advanced to cultivators for the sinking a^icul- of 1,280 new wells and the repair of 159 old ones. Up to 1904 about 8 lakhs had been thus advanced. The commonest domestic animals are the bullock and the Cattle, buffalo. There is also a large number of camels in the State, many of which are employed in the Imperial Service Camel Corps. Of the total area cultivated in 1903-4, 1,361 square miles, Irrigation, or nearly 94 per cent., were irrigated. Of this area, 204 square miles were irrigated from both wells and canals, 14 from wells alone, 993 from canals, and-150 by inundation from the rivers. In that year the State contained 17,220 masonry wells, besides 2,420 unbricked wells. The State has a vast system of inun- dation canals which take off from the rivers, especially from the Sutlej. Cash rents are very rare. Kind rents vary from one-fifth on Rents and unirrigated lands to one-half on some of the canal-irrigated and inundated lands in parts ^ of the Khanpur and Bahawalpur nizdmats. The rent of canal-irrigated land in these two nizdmats rules higher than in Minchinabad, where the tenant is responsible for the cost of canal clearance. Throughout the State, landlords realize in addition to the rent a number of dues of varying amounts. The occupancy tenant of the British Punjab is unknown in Bahawalpur. Cash wages have risen very largely in the last few years, but except in towns the wages of labour are generally paid in kind. The forests comprise an area of 412 square miles; but of Forests, this a large area is merely treeless waste, which is being gradually colonized by settlers from British Districts and other States, as well as by the people of Bahawalpur itself. During the minority of the late Naw^ab extensive plantations were established, and these now yield a large income. The forests, plantations, and gardens realized an income of Rs. 1,60,000 in 1903-4. The chief forest officer is the Mohiamim jangldt^ and the department is controlled by the Mushir-bala. Kankar abounds in several places, especially in the McLeod- Mineral?, ganj ildka of the Minchinabad tahsil. Saltpetre is also made from saline earth in several villages in the Minchinabad and Khairpur tahsils. The only arts of any importance are the manufacture of silk Arts and lungis (ornamental turbans) and sufis (silk cloth). Metal cups are made at Bahawalpur and Khanpur towns, while a very lucrative industry is the manufacture of impure carbonate of soda, which is exported in large quantities, especially from the

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