+-------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Class. |Dec. 1903.|Dec. 1904.|Dec. 1905.|Dec. 1906.| +-------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | | L s. d. | L s. d. | L s. d. | L s. d. | | First marks | 12 15 0 | 16 0 0 | 19 15 0 | 27 15 0 | | Blacks S C C | 11 2 6 | 14 5 0 | 17 15 0 | 20 15 0 | | Red S C C | 12 0 0 | 14 17 6 | 18 15 0 | 23 15 0 | | Native rejections | 8 2 6 | -- | 14 10 0 | 15 17 6 | | S 4 group | -- | -- | 25 10 0 | 38 0 0 | | R F block D group | -- | -- | -- | 36 0 0 | | R F circle D group| 14 10 0 | 16 15 0 | 21 10 0 | -- | | R F D group | 11 15 0 | 14 2 6 | 17 12 6 | 22 0 0 | | N B green D | 14 5 0 | -- | 21 0 0 | 32 0 0 | | Heart T 4 | 14 12 6 | 17 10 0 | 22 10 0 | 34 0 0 | | Heart T 5 | 14 12 6 | 17 10 0 | 21 0 0 | 31 0 0 | | Daisee 2 | 12 17 6 | -- | 18 15 0 | 25 10 0 | | Daisee assortment | 12 10 0 | 14 17 6 | 18 5 0 | -- | | Mixed cuttings | 4 5 0 | -- | 10 0 0 | 10 0 0 | +-------------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ _Jute Manufacture._--Long before jute came to occupy a prominent place amongst the textile fibres of Europe, it formed the raw material of a large and important industry throughout the regions of Eastern Bengal. The Hindu population made the material up into cordage, paper and cloth, the chief use of the latter being in the manufacture of gunny bags. Indeed, up to 1830-1840 there was little or no competition with hand labour for this class of material. The process of weaving gunnies for bags and other coarse articles by these hand-loom weavers has been described as follows:-- "Seven sticks or chattee weaving-posts, called _tana para_ or warp, are fixed upon the ground, occupying the length equal to the measure of the piece to be woven, and a sufficient number of twine or thread is wound on them as warp called _tana_. The warp is taken up and removed to the weaving machine. Two pieces of wood are placed at two ends, which are tied to the _ohari_ and _okher_ or roller; they are made fast to the _khoti_. The _belut_ or treadle is put into the warp; next to that is the _sarsul_; a thin piece of wood is laid upon the warp, called _chupari_ or regulator. There is no sley used in this, nor is a shuttle necessary; in the room of the latter a stick covered with thread called _singa_ is thrown into the warp as woof, which is beaten in by a piece of plank called _beyno_, and as the cloth is woven it is wound up to the roller. Next to this is a piece of wood called _khetone_, which is used for smoothing and regulating the woof; a stick is fastened to the warp to keep the woof straight."