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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2373#0435
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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
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third manure with dung. In the following month, after a heavy CHAPTER
VI.
rain, or after having watered the field, sow with the drill, and
harrow with the rake drawn by oxen. It is then divided into plots Aug. 1—6'.
like a field of Jola; and once a fortnight, when there is no raim,
water is given.
In place of the Vaisakha crop, when there is a scarcity of water, Wheats; JVf-
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wheat, both Juvi and Hotay are sown on rice-lands. These grains coccum, and
may be followed by a Kartika crop of Ragy; but by this process Tntlcnm
the ground is as much exhausted, as if it had been sown with Na-
vony. If the Kartika crop be altogether left out, the Vaisakha crop
of rice following wheat will be as good as if the ground had been
regularly cultivated for rice alone;, and in India it is a commonly
received opinion, that, where a supply of water admits of it, ground
can never be in such good heart as when regularly cultivated by a
succession of rice crops. Wheat requires a clay soil, and the man-
ner of cultivating both kinds is the same. In the two months pre-
ceding, and the one following the autumnal equinox, plough five
times. In the following month, after a rain, or after having wa-
tered the field, plough again, and drop the seed into the furrows.
Then divide it into squares, as for Jola, and water it once a month.
The straw is only used for fire. If given to cattle for fodder, it is
supposed capable of producing the distemper.
The ground for cultivating sugar-cane is divided into two equal Sugar-cane;.
parts, which are alternately cultivated; one year with cane, and
the other with rice. It is watered either from the reservoirs, or by
the machine called Capily. In the last case, a field of two Colagas,
or three acres, one half of which is in sugar-cane, and the other in
rice, requires the constant labour of four men and eight oxen.
Day-labourers must also be hired to rebuild the boiling-house, to
tie up the cane, and to weed. When the field is watered from a
reservoir, one man only is regularly employed; but to plough, to
plant, to weed, and to tie up the cane, both men and cattle must be
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Ron
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end, i
fthe^vf
^ is cut.
andthetuftJ
• months precfr:
plough four ti:-
or after having
seed in the furn i
ure 26) tied w. I
ribed at JIMi-J
: Jola is a
erwards. A u
1 Co/^a of
ie roen and caml
ivatcd allthecj
ii
m\
from*hatli
lt of mi" °H
cedmg y
vc
ClSP
&
an"
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
405
third manure with dung. In the following month, after a heavy CHAPTER
VI.
rain, or after having watered the field, sow with the drill, and
harrow with the rake drawn by oxen. It is then divided into plots Aug. 1—6'.
like a field of Jola; and once a fortnight, when there is no raim,
water is given.
In place of the Vaisakha crop, when there is a scarcity of water, Wheats; JVf-
tlCZlffll 7HO?lO'e
wheat, both Juvi and Hotay are sown on rice-lands. These grains coccum, and
may be followed by a Kartika crop of Ragy; but by this process Tntlcnm
the ground is as much exhausted, as if it had been sown with Na-
vony. If the Kartika crop be altogether left out, the Vaisakha crop
of rice following wheat will be as good as if the ground had been
regularly cultivated for rice alone;, and in India it is a commonly
received opinion, that, where a supply of water admits of it, ground
can never be in such good heart as when regularly cultivated by a
succession of rice crops. Wheat requires a clay soil, and the man-
ner of cultivating both kinds is the same. In the two months pre-
ceding, and the one following the autumnal equinox, plough five
times. In the following month, after a rain, or after having wa-
tered the field, plough again, and drop the seed into the furrows.
Then divide it into squares, as for Jola, and water it once a month.
The straw is only used for fire. If given to cattle for fodder, it is
supposed capable of producing the distemper.
The ground for cultivating sugar-cane is divided into two equal Sugar-cane;.
parts, which are alternately cultivated; one year with cane, and
the other with rice. It is watered either from the reservoirs, or by
the machine called Capily. In the last case, a field of two Colagas,
or three acres, one half of which is in sugar-cane, and the other in
rice, requires the constant labour of four men and eight oxen.
Day-labourers must also be hired to rebuild the boiling-house, to
tie up the cane, and to weed. When the field is watered from a
reservoir, one man only is regularly employed; but to plough, to
plant, to weed, and to tie up the cane, both men and cattle must be
p
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