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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
93
is generally about four feet in length, and three inches in (Same- CHAPTER
ter, which is made of heavy timber, and shod with iron. The v^^^
grain is put into a hole formed in a rock or stone. The pestle is May 20, &c.
first raised with the one hand, and then with the other; which is
very hard labour for the Hindu women, who in general are rather
delicately formed.
So far as I have observed in Mysore, ground, once brought into Different
cultivation for rice, is universally considered as arrived at the cr°Psinone
J year.
highest possible degree of improvement; and all attempts to render
it more productive by a succession of crops, or by fallow, would be
looked upon as proofs of insanity. Where there is a supply of
water, the farmers in general think, that the best plan of cultiva-
tion is to sow one crop of rice, immediately after another has been
reaped; and in many parts, favoured with a supply of water, three
crops of rice are every year regularly produced. In the Ashta grams,
however, there is no such land; and though some parts each year
give two crops of rice, by far the greater part of the irrigated lands
have too small a supply of water to ripen two crops of rice; and the
farmer must content himself with one crop of that valuable article,
and another of some kind of pulse, or other dry grain. Even this
crop is frequently prevented by some of the operations attend-
ing the cultivation of rice, as I have had several times occasion to
mention; but still it is of considerable importance. The articles
of which it consists are Udu, Hessaru, WuW Ellu, and Tadaguny.
The Udu is of two kinds; Chic'udu, and Dod'udu; or little, and
large Udus.
The Chic'udu seems to be a variety, with black seeds, of the
Phaseolus minimoo of Dr. Roxburgh. From the season in which it
ripens, it is also called Car'udu. It is the Minamolu of the Telingas,
the Sir ulandu of the Tamuls, the Mash of the Decany Mussulmans,
the PVudied of Kankana, and the Ticory Colai of the Bengakse. It is
cultivated as follows : The ploughing commences ten days after the
feast Sivaratri, which this-year happened on the 12th of February,
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IIfP-s!
m
r
0r fin
ece rice
ale« Tlle
Is totally
1 Cudq
1 Persons
ito a pot
till it is
en spread
:d on
ren parts
rhich
ren S
rice.
is nevei
st be ex-
fterbeing
siderable
»ak; and,
saleable,
,ortion<
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
93
is generally about four feet in length, and three inches in (Same- CHAPTER
ter, which is made of heavy timber, and shod with iron. The v^^^
grain is put into a hole formed in a rock or stone. The pestle is May 20, &c.
first raised with the one hand, and then with the other; which is
very hard labour for the Hindu women, who in general are rather
delicately formed.
So far as I have observed in Mysore, ground, once brought into Different
cultivation for rice, is universally considered as arrived at the cr°Psinone
J year.
highest possible degree of improvement; and all attempts to render
it more productive by a succession of crops, or by fallow, would be
looked upon as proofs of insanity. Where there is a supply of
water, the farmers in general think, that the best plan of cultiva-
tion is to sow one crop of rice, immediately after another has been
reaped; and in many parts, favoured with a supply of water, three
crops of rice are every year regularly produced. In the Ashta grams,
however, there is no such land; and though some parts each year
give two crops of rice, by far the greater part of the irrigated lands
have too small a supply of water to ripen two crops of rice; and the
farmer must content himself with one crop of that valuable article,
and another of some kind of pulse, or other dry grain. Even this
crop is frequently prevented by some of the operations attend-
ing the cultivation of rice, as I have had several times occasion to
mention; but still it is of considerable importance. The articles
of which it consists are Udu, Hessaru, WuW Ellu, and Tadaguny.
The Udu is of two kinds; Chic'udu, and Dod'udu; or little, and
large Udus.
The Chic'udu seems to be a variety, with black seeds, of the
Phaseolus minimoo of Dr. Roxburgh. From the season in which it
ripens, it is also called Car'udu. It is the Minamolu of the Telingas,
the Sir ulandu of the Tamuls, the Mash of the Decany Mussulmans,
the PVudied of Kankana, and the Ticory Colai of the Bengakse. It is
cultivated as follows : The ploughing commences ten days after the
feast Sivaratri, which this-year happened on the 12th of February,
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