------+------------+------------+---------+------+------------------ Month.| Total of | No. of days|Irrigated| Delta| Remarks. | discharges | in flow. | area up | up to| +------+-----+------+-----+ to date.| date.| | For |Up to| For |Up to| | | |month.|date.|month.|date.| | | ------+------+-----+------+-----+---------+------+------------------ | | | | | Acres | Feet | Octo- | 3255 | 3255| 31 | 31 | 6510 | 1·0 | ber | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Novem-| 3390 | 6345| 27 | 58 | 9000 | 1·41 |Closed 3 days ber | | | | | | |because of breach. ------+------+-----+------+-----+---------+------+------------------ 4. =Registers of Irrigation and Outlets.= It is obvious that a Subdivisional Officer cannot look properly into matters connected with the working of his channels unless he has, ready to hand, a register showing, crop by crop, the area irrigated by each distributary and each outlet and keeps it posted up to date. In 1888 the Chief Engineer of the Punjab Irrigation directed that each Subdivisional Officer should keep up English registers of irrigation by villages. The order was for years lost sight of. The matter has lately, in view of certain recent occurrences on a large perennial canal, again come to notice, and this most essential factor in the working of a canal is, it is believed, receiving attention. As to the precise form which an irrigation register should take, opinions and practices differ somewhat. In all cases the net irrigated areas should be shown--kharif, rabi, and total--and the total remitted area. The areas remitted for kharif and rabi separately may or may not be shown. The net percentage of the commanded culturable area irrigated--total of the two crops--can be shown in red ink and is most useful.[28] It enables the general state of affairs on any outlet to be seen at a glance and shows how it compares with other outlets and with the whole distributary. [28] Provided that the culturable commanded area is properly shown and is not made to include jungles or other tracts which were never intended to be irrigated.