The average price of dhurra is fifteen piastres per "rachel," or about 3s.2d.for five hundred pounds upon the spot where it is grown.

The dhurra (Sorghum andropogon) is the grain most commonly used throughout the Soudan; there are great varieties of this plant, of which the most common are the white and the red.

The land is not only favored by Nature by its fertility, but the intense heat of the summer is the laborer's great assistant.

As before described, all vegetation entirely disappears in the glaring sun, or becomes so dry that it is swept off by fire; thus the soil is perfectly clean and fit for immediate cultivation upon the arrival of the rains.
The tool generally used is similar to the Dutch hoe.

With this simple implement the surface is scratched to the depth of about two inches, and the seeds of the dhurra are dibbled in about three feet apart, in rows from four to five feet in width.