The yearly out-turn is estimated at over 20,000 logs, and forest officers have estimated that an annual out-turn of 9000 logs might be kept up without injury to the forests.
The field rats (Mus mettada) occasionally multiply so exceedingly as to diminish the out-turn of the local harvest, and to require special measures for their destruction.
No attempt was made to measure the fields or calculate the out-turn, as had been done by Akbar, and is now done when occasion requires in the British provinces; but the amount payable was fixed by reference to what had been paid in the past.
The total out-turn for the province in 1905 was 193,556,047 lb.
Abassi has given the best results, and the experiments have been so successful that in 1904-1905 an out-turn of not less than ioo,000 bales " was prophesied in the course of a few years " (Report of Director, Land Records and Agriculture).
