Distruct Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Supplementary Notes and Statistics Basti District

The one is maintained by the Board in charge of the Veterinary Inspe-itor at the Veterinary dispesary at Sadr and the other five have been lent to four members of the District Board. [...] Till the end of January the people were engaged in the fields and the liberal distribution of taqavi arrested and in some cases dispersed the serious symptoms of famine whieh appeared immediately after the crop failure. [...] Gratuitous relief was at first confined to the central part of Budhi and the adjacent patwari's circles of Awainian but it was eventually extended to the whole of Budhi and to the whole of Awainian excepting the riverain villages of the latter which had an excellent rabi harvest. [...] The soil classes were intended to allow for the differences in irrigation in the actual fertility of the soil and in the labour involved in cultivation. [...] The number increased largely at this settlement on account of the demarcation of mahals on the Banganga the Kunura and the lower Kuano.