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ban'   *ftoS*3wn$) and /Bharat   morasi'     TORTs     are-
grown here. The former is manufactured from the end
of October to the second week of November ; the latter
from the end of December to the second week of January.
The season of marketing gul therefore, extends mainly
over three months, November, December and January.
The unit used in the gul trade : The unit of gul used is
peculiar to this region. In this part farmers do not
prepare blocks of gul as their brethren do in the Deccan,
The usual system is this. When gul becomes cool, it is
transferred from a small pan to earthen pots of varying
weight* These pots are made by local potters. The
usual weight of a pot made in Khergam is 12 seers, but it
increases as we go to the west till it reaches about 22
seers in Dhamdachi, a village just in the vicinity of Bul-
sar. In Bhagda Bunder, about three miles to the south
of Bulsar, the uppermost limit is reached. Here the
weight of an earthen pot varies from 28 to 32 seers.
The unit of gul is such an earthen pot containing gul filled
to its brim. It includes both the weight of the vessel and
the weight of gul. In fixing the price, the outside mer-
chant invariably takes the weight of the pot into con-
sideration.
The methods of marketing : Though there are varia-
tions in detail, the main links may be described as
follows : —
Bulsar is the gathering and distributing centre of gul,
as far as this region is concerned. Here we find a good
numbers of dealers in gul. Some of them purchase gul on
their own account ; some partly for themselves and partly
for the up-country merchants ; and the rest, who constitute
the majority, act only as commission agents of the up-
country merchants.
These dealer-merchants are generally connected^1 with
the gul-producing villages through the village Bania or
1 Some of these dealer-merchants are directly connected with the grow-
ers of sugarcane as creditors.