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Survey No. 7, garden land growing cocoanuts:—

Sub-divisions— Gunthas

1. Ganpu Dodda 1¾

2. Ganpu Bira 1

3. Ganpu Dodda 2⅜

4. Ganpu Bira?7

5. Mahabalu Mari 1⅞

6. Rama Anapa Naik 2½

7. Mahabalu Mari 1

8. Shridhar Manjanath Shahbog 8½

Total 26

Survey No. 33, rice land:—

Sub-divisions— Gunthas

1. Mahalaxmi kom Sadashiv Naik 3¼

2. Tulsi kom Shiv 4¾

3. Timapa Damgauda 4¾

4. Mahabalu Mari 6

5. Ganpu Dodda 8½

6. Ganpu Bira 13

7. Ramchander Sababhatta?2½

8. Dasu Vaikanth Pai and Wasudeo Krishna Pai 7½

9. Kuppa Maragauda 1

Total 1 acre 11 gunthas

A cultivator can sometimes lease land contiguous to his own holding, and in this way some temporary unification of the land is effected, though it does not go very far. The following gives a typical case of the area actually cultivated by one of the most substantial cultivators in the village, viz.:—

Ganpu Bira cultivated 12 acres of rice land, of which he owns 3 acres and hires 9 acres: the 12 acres which he cultivates is divided into 21 different plots.

The whole of the land is rice land, except that on the edge of the riiver a few fields contain a certain number of cocoanut trees which are badly looked after and not irrigated. There is a tank in the jungle close by which, it is stated, formerly provided sufficient irrigation water to grow a second crop of waingan rice (i.e., hot weather rice) or sugarcane on practically the whole area, to which it was conducted by a channel round the upper contour of the field. The tank is now much silted up and the channel out of order. Rice is