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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER
The kinds or rice
cultivated ner
e are as ronow :
III.
June f.
Names.
Doda Butta
Ripening.
5 months.
Names.
Conawaly
Ripening.
5 months.
Rice.
Putu Butta
5 months.
Mulu Butta
3 months.
Hot ay Caimhuti
5 months.
Every kind may be cultivated, either as Hainu or Caru. The
Mulu Butta is never sown, except when there is a deficiency of
water. The only cultivation here is the Mola Butta, or sprouted-
seed ; the manner of preparing which is as follows : Steep the seed
in water all night; next morning mix it with cow-dung, and fresh
plants of the Tumbay Sopu, or Phlomis esculenta, Roxb. MSS., and
put it in a Mudy. On the Mudy place a heavy stone, and on the
two following days sprinkle it with water. On the third day it is
fit for sowing.
For the Hainu crop, the ploughings, from about the 1st of June
till the 11th of July, are nine in number. Dung and leaves are
then put on the field, and trampled into the mud. The water is now
let off", until no more than a depth of one inch remains; afterwards,
the seed is sown, and a slight sprinkling of dung is laid over it.
A watering once in three days is then given; and after the third
time, the field is inundated till the grain ripens. The weeds are
removed on the 20th, 40th, and 60th days. The Caru cultivation
is exactly the same, only the ploughings are between the 21st of
November, and the -20th of December.
In both kinds of cultivation, and in every species of rice, an
equal quantity of seed is sown on the same extent of ground, and
the produce is nearly equal. By measuring a plot of ground, and
reducing to the English standards the farmer's estimate of its seed
and produce in a middling good crop, I find the seed to be for an
acre, 1 bushel 1,624 gallon, and the produce to be 36 bushels
0,720 gallon, or thirty fold. The quantity of seed here is smaller,
and the produce greater, than in the land watered by the river
Cdvery,
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER
The kinds or rice
cultivated ner
e are as ronow :
III.
June f.
Names.
Doda Butta
Ripening.
5 months.
Names.
Conawaly
Ripening.
5 months.
Rice.
Putu Butta
5 months.
Mulu Butta
3 months.
Hot ay Caimhuti
5 months.
Every kind may be cultivated, either as Hainu or Caru. The
Mulu Butta is never sown, except when there is a deficiency of
water. The only cultivation here is the Mola Butta, or sprouted-
seed ; the manner of preparing which is as follows : Steep the seed
in water all night; next morning mix it with cow-dung, and fresh
plants of the Tumbay Sopu, or Phlomis esculenta, Roxb. MSS., and
put it in a Mudy. On the Mudy place a heavy stone, and on the
two following days sprinkle it with water. On the third day it is
fit for sowing.
For the Hainu crop, the ploughings, from about the 1st of June
till the 11th of July, are nine in number. Dung and leaves are
then put on the field, and trampled into the mud. The water is now
let off", until no more than a depth of one inch remains; afterwards,
the seed is sown, and a slight sprinkling of dung is laid over it.
A watering once in three days is then given; and after the third
time, the field is inundated till the grain ripens. The weeds are
removed on the 20th, 40th, and 60th days. The Caru cultivation
is exactly the same, only the ploughings are between the 21st of
November, and the -20th of December.
In both kinds of cultivation, and in every species of rice, an
equal quantity of seed is sown on the same extent of ground, and
the produce is nearly equal. By measuring a plot of ground, and
reducing to the English standards the farmer's estimate of its seed
and produce in a middling good crop, I find the seed to be for an
acre, 1 bushel 1,624 gallon, and the produce to be 36 bushels
0,720 gallon, or thirty fold. The quantity of seed here is smaller,
and the produce greater, than in the land watered by the river
Cdvery,