ctly the rains commence,
is not more then ten maunds per biggah. The factory maund is equal
to about seventy-eight pounds. One thousand maunds of plant are
considered as producing quite an average quantity of indigo if this
amounts to four maunds. Adopting another mode of estimate, Mr.
Ballard says, that in Bengal an average crop may he considered to be
from ten to twelve bundles, over an extensive cultivation, in a good
season, from each Bengal biggah; the sheaf or bundle being measured
by a six-feet cord or chain. Speaking of the produce in Tirhoot, the
same gentleman says the "luggie," or measuring rod, varies
throughout the district. The common Tirhoot biggah, is, I believe,
equal to two-and-a-half or three Bengal biggahs (about an English
acre). Its produce varies according to the size of the luggie, the
fertility of the soil, and accidents of season; eight to ten hackery
loads, however, is generally considered a good average return. South
and east of Tirhoot, one hundred maunds from six hundred biggahs,
including "khoonti," or a second cutting, is reckoned a successful
result. In another part of the district, including Sarun, where the
"luggie" is larger, the average produce is about one-third better.
As we measure our plant on the ground (he adds), the bundle system
is unknown here; but, I believe, forty-five or fifty Tirhoot hackery
loads of plants (estimated to yield a maund of dry indigo), will be
found equal to two hundred Bengal bundles.--("Trans. Agri. Hort.
Soc., vol. ii. p. 23.")

In Oude the _jamowah_, or crop sown in May, yields on an average
twenty maunds, or say thirteen bundles, per biggah (160 feet
square). The "assaroo," or rain sowings, producing a very inferior
plant, the average return is not more than three maunds, or two
bundles. The "khoonti," or crop of the next year from the same
plants, averages fifteen maunds, or ten bundles per biggah.

In Central and Western India, the plants are allowed to produce the
second and even the third year, according to some statements; but in
Bengal the same stocks are rarely suffered to yield a second crop:
being nearly all on lands that are under water in the height of the
inundation, the stock is rotted in the ground. Mr. Ballard, speaking
of the duration of the plant, says that, as for three years' plant
and "kho