Closer and more careful cropping might be expected in the Nagpur tahsil than in localities further removed from the city. But the contrary is the case. A large number of holdings in villages round the capital belong to Brahmans of Nagpur, and other absentee cultivators, whose farms are not properly supervised, and among the regular agricultural classes holding land in the neighborhood many pay more attention to bringing fuel and grass into the town for sale, or to plying carts for hire, than to the cultivation of their lands. Cow-dung manures is made up into fuel cakes instead of being utilized in the fields, and bullocks are used for drawing carts when they should be at the plough. As one gets further from Nagpur these causes cease to operate, and some of the outlying parts of the tahsil are much better cultivated’. Mr. Craddock calculated that if the cropping within the occupied area was as close over the rest of the District as in the Katol tahsil, another 128,000 acres would be added to the cropped area. As has already been the fallow land has since decreased by 90,000 acres or rather more than half of this amount.