APPENDIX IX
Showing how the usual daily diet of the average Kaliparaj-
family, regarded by them as a decent ration, falls short of the
standard diet of efficiency.
We have assumed, in accordance with the notion prevalent
among the Kaliparaj, 5 seers of paddy (yielding about 3| seers of
rice) $£ seers of nagli and l£ seers of wal as the average daily
requirements of a normal Kaliparaj family consisting of 1 man,.
2 women and % children. We shall try here to find out whether
this daily diet supplies the family with as much nutrition as is
necessary for maintaining physical efficiency.
In accordance with our assumption, namely, 1 man = | woman
=§ child, the normal family will be=*59/15 adults (male). Convert-
ing the daily ration mentioned above into ounces per adult,,
the following will be the results:
15-2 oz. of paddy,
13-6   „  „ nagli, and*
5'4   ,, „ wal.
The following figures, extracted from the Bulletin of the
Agricultural Department No. 124 of 1925 by Prof. D. L.
Sahasrabudhe, show the nutritive value of rice, nagli and wal in
terms of percentages:

	Rice
(Ramsal) 	Nagli
(Poona) 	Wal
(Poona) 	
Moisture 	 	10-9 	14-86 	9-08 	
Ether extract   .    .    . 	0-65 	1*84 	1-11 	
Proteins  	 	6-18 	6-44 	20-75 	
Starch     ..... 	31-97 	78-84 	58-88 	
Woody fibre ....
Ash    .    .    . 	nil
0»85 	1-88
2-69 	6-78
8-90 	
				
Though the quality of the three varieties of corn used by the
Kaliparaj dweller of Atgam is inferior to that of those mentioned
above, we shall assume for the purpose of discussion the above-
mentioned analysis to be true in the case under consideration.