When the Lower Jhelum Canal is closed, in course of rotation, the Upper Jhelum Canal will still be flowing, and the loss in it, 664 c. feet per second, has to be added to the figure (2,126) given above, thus bringing up the loss to 2,790 c. feet per second. In order to ascertain what the state of affairs will be in the rabi, the statistics obtained on the Lower Chenab Canal were examined. These show that the rabi duty at the distributary heads on that canal is 206 acres. On the Upper Bari Doab Canal the duty at the distributary heads is 263 acres, but 11 per cent. of the area receives only “first waterings.” The duty based on the remaining area is 234 acres. But the above duties are only attained by running higher supplies in October and March than during the intervening four months of the crop. The following remarks and figures are taken from the Report on the Project Estimates:-- “The statistics of working of distributaries of the Chenab and Bari Doab Canals give the average discharges shown in the following table for the three years ending with 1903-04. The losses by absorption are calculated on the wetted areas for the different rotational periods. The average discharge less absorption is the supply which reached the heads of the distributaries. CHENAB CANAL. ------------------+--------------------------------------------+------ | PERIOD. | AVER- +------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+ AGE. PARTICULARS. | Octo-| Octo-| No- | De-|Janu-| Feb-|March.| | ber | ber | vem-| cem-|ary. | ru- | | | 1st- | 16th-| ber | ber| | ary | | | 15th | 31st| | | | | | ------------------+------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------ | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | Cu- | secs.| secs.|secs.|secs.|secs.|secs.| secs.| secs. Average supply | | | | | | | | entering head of | | | | | | | | canal |10,196|10,285|7,788|5,593|5,127|5,500| 6,603| 6,809 | | | | | | | | Deduct absorption | 1,633| 1,633|1,250|1,053|1,032|1,171| 1,433| 1,262 +------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------ Supply at distrib-| | | | | | | | utary heads for | | | | | | | | 1,155,685 acres, | | | | | | | | the average Bari | | | | | | | | area | 8,563| 8,652|6,538|4,510|4,095|4,329| 5,170| 5,546 +------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------ Proportional | | | | | | | | supply for | | | | | | | |