Explosives . from this apparently useless soil. Thenthe mahajan is on the look-out and secures the saltpetre as it i> made, andcarries it to his own refinery for final manipulation : while the salt which is 1 J. W. Leather, Mini. l)tj>. Agr. in India, vol. ii., no. 2, .Ian. L912. 2 \Y. P. Headden, Colorado Agr. Col. Expl. Station. Bulletins 155, 160, throughNature, 1911, p. 3(34. J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 1914, p. 586. 3 Jour. Agricultural and Horticultural Soc. xii., p. 107. old series : Diet. EconomicProducts of India. S. 686, vol. vi. part ii. p. EXPLOSIVES always bitter, and I should
Explosives . from this apparently useless soil. Thenthe mahajan is on the look-out and secures the saltpetre as it i> made, andcarries it to his own refinery for final manipulation : while the salt which is 1 J. W. Leather, Mini. l)tj>. Agr. in India, vol. ii., no. 2, .Ian. L912. 2 \Y. P. Headden, Colorado Agr. Col. Expl. Station. Bulletins 155, 160, throughNature, 1911, p. 3(34. J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 1914, p. 586. 3 Jour. Agricultural and Horticultural Soc. xii., p. 107. old series : Diet. EconomicProducts of India. S. 686, vol. vi. part ii. p. EXPLOSIVES always bitter, and I should >ay unwholesome, under the name of khari nimuk - - Id to the lowest classes of the community at a cheap rate. The bosmust be a profitable one. as the large bankers of Ghazipore. Patna and Benaresare always ready to go into the trade, and to advance money i able middlemen. . Sometimes these men experience considerable trouble inrecovering: their advances, but in that case they quietly walk off with the. IB I : bollocks of the nuniah who . . never dreams of maki . mplaint, butor borrows from his comrades and friends till he has got money enough to release them by pa\ _ k principal and interest ; well knowing that hewill set no more advances, and will, besides, be put out of caste by his cmate- if he does not, at all event-, pay the original advance. If. on the con-trary, he makes more -altpetre than will cover his advance, and he haeparticular ceremony going on. he will clandestinely sell his partially refinedBaltpetre to other petty pare! - Irnnk while the money lasts, and .MANUFACTURE OF SALTPETRE 59 ask contemptuously, What, am I a poor man that I should work ? Thetrade is too hazardous a one, and the petty advances spread over too widean extent of country, to make it worth the while of Europeans with capitalto attend to ; in consequence it is almost wholly in the hands of the largehouses above named (who are connected with Calcutta native firms, and Mhoin turn have their
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