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TABLE No. 2.

Tests
Year 1915-19
Year
192*47
Per capita in
!»15~t$
Per capita in lK«-*7
Per capita increase [tj or decrease 1-]

1. Land under

cultivation

in acres
3129*9
3143*4
1.3
1-2
-•1

2. Plough cat-

tle
693
616
•29
•24
-•05

5. Ploughs
297
329
•127
•128
4* -001

4. Carts
179
198
•77
*77
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It is evident from the first table1 that with the exception
of plough cattle, there is an all round increase in other
items. The fact established by the second table is that with
the exception of ploughs, which show a negligible increase
of .001 per cent., there is a decrease in the first two items
and a stationary state in the third. Thus it is obvious
that, if we do not take the size of the population into ac-
count, we shall get a misleading conclusion.
We shall now pass on to the other tests and see if the
main conclusion, with regard to the economic condition of
the people shown above, is confirmed or controverted. We
propose to take the next three tests together as they are
interrelated.
INTERRELATION BETWEEN RISE IN LAND VALUES,
RENTALS AND PRICES
Rise in land values and rise in rentals are closely asso-
ciated with the rise in the price of farm produce. If the
first two are due to the third, it will imply that there is^an
increased profit from agriculture which imparts a high
1 Settlement Officers as a rule, consider the resources of the people in
the first way which is generally apt to show an increase and conse-
quently likely to give a false, or at any rate an exaggerated notion* of
the prosperity of agriculture and hence of the agricultural population,
e. g. compare the Butsar Taluka Revision Settlement report (1900),
p. 6.