If cotton is grown, it is followed by a winter crop of wheat, clover, or beans, and this is followed by a flood crop of millet. The cotton is sown in March of one year, and the flood millet is harvested in November of the following year, so that three crops are obtained in twenty months. After the flood millet, clover will be sown, and this will be cleared off the ground in time to plant cotton, which will be picked and finished with in October. This makes five crops in thirty-one months. I believe that sometimes even this record is beaten, and three crops are got out of fifteen months. Everything which is sent out of the Fayûm, with the exception of an insignificant quantity which is carried out by camels, is shown in the railway books, from which the following figures, in kantars, have been obtained. (A kantar = 98·09 lbs.) EXPORTS FROM THE FAYÛM PROVINCE. --+-------------+---------+---------+-----------+-- | | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | +-------------+---------+---------+-----------+ |Cotton | 39,433 | 56,334 | 86,638 | | | | | | |Cotton-seed | 82,010 | 104,608 | 185,917 | | | | | | |Cereals | 418,935 | 797,363 | 1,109,070 | --+-------------+---------+---------+-----------+-- The value of the exports in 1891 was not less than that given in the following calculation:— Kantars. Piastres. L.E. Cotton 86,638 at 170 = 147,284 Cotton-seed 185,917 at 55 = 102,254 Cereals 1,109,070 at 70 = 776,349 --------- Total = 1,025,887 The area on which an average land tax of 57 piastres a feddan was paid has been given before as 233,301 feddans (242,166 acres). Hence the value of cotton, cotton-seed, and cereals exported from the Fayûm in 1891 was at the rate of L.E. 4·397 a feddan (4_l._ 6_s._ 10_d._ an acre). Clover, which is extensively cultivated, is all consumed in the province. Besides the above, the Fayûm exports also figs, grapes, olives, quail, fish, mats, baskets, and a few other things. The province is justly famed for its excellent figs, but the grapes are not of superior quality to those of other parts of Egypt, though they have the reputation of being so. In 1891 Government farmed out the fisheries for a sum of L.E. 2000. Every day large numbers of fish, chiefly _bulti_ (Nile carp) are sent in crates to Cairo. The bulti is excellent eating. Another common fish is the _armûd_, or Nile shad-fish _alias_ sheath-fish or cat-fish (_Silurus_). It is considered by the natives to be good to eat, but according to others it is not fit for food.