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and once across the field. Next week weed with the Ujary. It CHAPTER
ripens in six months; and, having been cut down near the root, ll-
is stacked for six days. It is then trodden out by cattle. The May 20, &c.
seed reserved for so vying must be well dried in the sun. The re-
mainder is preserved in the Canqja, but does not keep long. It is
both boiled like rice, and made into flour for dressing as Sangutty,
or pudding. The straw is eaten by every kind of cattle; but, of
all the fodders used here, this is reckoned the worst.
Nawnay is the Pankum Italicum of Linnasus, the Bagera of the Navonay, or
Bengalese, Cangonyof the Decany Mussulmans, Carolu of the Tellngas, ?anmimlta~
and Tenay of the Tamul language. There are two varieties of it
cultivated; the one called Ghidu, or short; and the other Jotu,
or long, and Doda, or great. Unless a quantity of dung can be
spared, it is never sown on the two worst soils. On the two best
soils it requires no manure, and does not injure the succeeding
crop of Ragy. In the spring, plough six times. When the heavy
rains commence, sow, and plough in the seed. It requires neither
weeding nor hoeing, and ripens in three months. Cut it close to
the ground, and stack it for eight days; then spread it to the sun
for a day, and on the next tread out the grain with oxen. The
seed for sowing must be well dried in the sun, and preserved in
a Mudy. The remainder is kept in the Canqja. It is made into
flour for Sangutty, or pudding, and is also frequently boiled whole,
like rice ; for which, according to my taste, it is the best succe-
daneum that the country affords. The straw is used for fodder,
but is not good. The Jotu Navonay is sometimes put in drills with
Ragy, in place of the Avaray or Tonary.
Huruli is much cultivated. It is the Dolkhos biflorus of Linnaeus, Huruli, or
the Horse gram of the Madras English, the Cultie of the Decany ^r^m
Mussulmans, and the Colu of the Tamul language. There are two
varieties ; the red, and the black; but here the two are alvyays
sown intermixed. In the last half of Sravana, from the 5th to the
20th August, plough three times. Sow broad-cast, with the first
[t is
M
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1)11(1 n
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
107
lack cia},
[al'ties o{
}- Intht
:ement of
eredbya
necessity
lbtless oe
in three
:ks.
, and the
\ is dried
preserved
t others,
iw, whico
urgh; tbe
Cadortd
, the sue
soil, d
wed by5
, Id t^
' m^
J* c#
day
fofl»
0
and once across the field. Next week weed with the Ujary. It CHAPTER
ripens in six months; and, having been cut down near the root, ll-
is stacked for six days. It is then trodden out by cattle. The May 20, &c.
seed reserved for so vying must be well dried in the sun. The re-
mainder is preserved in the Canqja, but does not keep long. It is
both boiled like rice, and made into flour for dressing as Sangutty,
or pudding. The straw is eaten by every kind of cattle; but, of
all the fodders used here, this is reckoned the worst.
Nawnay is the Pankum Italicum of Linnasus, the Bagera of the Navonay, or
Bengalese, Cangonyof the Decany Mussulmans, Carolu of the Tellngas, ?anmimlta~
and Tenay of the Tamul language. There are two varieties of it
cultivated; the one called Ghidu, or short; and the other Jotu,
or long, and Doda, or great. Unless a quantity of dung can be
spared, it is never sown on the two worst soils. On the two best
soils it requires no manure, and does not injure the succeeding
crop of Ragy. In the spring, plough six times. When the heavy
rains commence, sow, and plough in the seed. It requires neither
weeding nor hoeing, and ripens in three months. Cut it close to
the ground, and stack it for eight days; then spread it to the sun
for a day, and on the next tread out the grain with oxen. The
seed for sowing must be well dried in the sun, and preserved in
a Mudy. The remainder is kept in the Canqja. It is made into
flour for Sangutty, or pudding, and is also frequently boiled whole,
like rice ; for which, according to my taste, it is the best succe-
daneum that the country affords. The straw is used for fodder,
but is not good. The Jotu Navonay is sometimes put in drills with
Ragy, in place of the Avaray or Tonary.
Huruli is much cultivated. It is the Dolkhos biflorus of Linnaeus, Huruli, or
the Horse gram of the Madras English, the Cultie of the Decany ^r^m
Mussulmans, and the Colu of the Tamul language. There are two
varieties ; the red, and the black; but here the two are alvyays
sown intermixed. In the last half of Sravana, from the 5th to the
20th August, plough three times. Sow broad-cast, with the first