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SIZE OF LAND HOLDINGS 195 Survey No. 7, garden land growing cocoanuts:--- S ub-d ivis[on s-- Gun t has 1. Ganpu Dodda ... 1 2. Ganpu Birs ... 1 ?. Gs, npn Dodd& ... 4. G&npu B?r? ... 5. Mahabalu Marl ... l?r 6. Rams An&pa Na?k ... 7. Mahabalu Marl ... 1 8. Shr|dhar Ma?anath Shahbog Total ... 26 Survey No. 33, rice land:-- tlD-ttVtStOl18--- lm 2. . 6. 7. 8. Mahal?xml kern Sadsshlv Naik Tulsl ko?r? SMv Timspa Damgauds Mshabslu Mar? Ganpu Dodda Gaupu Bira Rsmchander Ssbabhatts? ... Dasu Vaikanth Psi and Wasudeo Krishna Psi 7? 9. Kupp& Maragauda ... 1 G uathas Total 1 acre 11 gunthas A cultivator can sometimes le?,se 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 su[stant[al cultivators in the village, t,?.:-- Ganpu B[ra cultivated 12 acres of rice land, of wh!ch he owns $ acres and hires ? acres: the 12 acres whtch .he cultivates is divided into I different plots. Physical ond;tfon of the land The whole of the land is rice land, except that on the edge of the r[.ver a few fields contain a certain number of cocoanut trees which are badly looked after and not [n'igated. There is a tank in the jungle close by which, it ?s stated, formerly provided suffic[e.nt [rrlgat[on water to grow a second crop of wa?ngan rice ('?.., hot weather rice) or sugarcane on prac- tically the whole area, to which it was conducted by .a channel round the upper contour of the field, The tank ?s now much silted up and the channel out of order. Rice is