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406
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
VI.
Aug. 1-
CHAPTEIt hired in addition. Three kinds of cane are here cultivated. The
most valued is the RestaUi, which grows best on a black soil, in
-6. which there is much sand or gravel; a good crop of this, on a
Colaga-land, produces 100 Maunds of Jagory; which is about Q$\
hundred weight on an acre. The next in quality is the Carkabo, or
black-cane. It requires a pure black mould, called Eray bumi; and,
in a good crop, produces from a Colaga-land, 60 Maunds of Jagory,
or from an acre nearly 17i hundred weight. The poorest cane is
the Maracabo, or stick cane. It is cultivated on the same kind of
soil with the Rest alii; but produces only half as much Jagory as
the Caricabo, and that of a very bad quality, for it is quite black.
The cultivation of the Restalli, however, is comparatively much
more troublesome. In the course of the eight months following
the summer solstice, the field must be ploughed eleven times; and
once a month, during the whole of that time, 1000 sheep must be
folded for one night on the field. It is then manured with mud
from the bottoms of the reservoirs, and ploughed again twice. The
channels are then formed, and in them the cuttings are laid down,
two and two being always placed parallel. A Colaga of land requires
50,000. The channels are then filled with water, and the cuttings
are trodden jnto the mud with the feet. The second watering is on
the 4th day, the third watering on the 12th; afterwards the field,
if the soil be good, must be watered once a fortnight; or once a
week, if it part with its moisture quickly. On the 20th day the
field is weeded with the small hoe called Molu Potu, which implies
that the operation is done very superficially. On the 35th day the
whole field is dug with the large hoe called Yella Kudali; and, the
earth being thrown up toward the canes in ridges, the channels for
conveying the water run between the rows. About the 90th day
the canes are tied up with a leaf of the plant in parcels of five or
six, and once a month this is repeated. When the cane is ten
months old, the crop begins, and in thirty days it must be finished.
406
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
VI.
Aug. 1-
CHAPTEIt hired in addition. Three kinds of cane are here cultivated. The
most valued is the RestaUi, which grows best on a black soil, in
-6. which there is much sand or gravel; a good crop of this, on a
Colaga-land, produces 100 Maunds of Jagory; which is about Q$\
hundred weight on an acre. The next in quality is the Carkabo, or
black-cane. It requires a pure black mould, called Eray bumi; and,
in a good crop, produces from a Colaga-land, 60 Maunds of Jagory,
or from an acre nearly 17i hundred weight. The poorest cane is
the Maracabo, or stick cane. It is cultivated on the same kind of
soil with the Rest alii; but produces only half as much Jagory as
the Caricabo, and that of a very bad quality, for it is quite black.
The cultivation of the Restalli, however, is comparatively much
more troublesome. In the course of the eight months following
the summer solstice, the field must be ploughed eleven times; and
once a month, during the whole of that time, 1000 sheep must be
folded for one night on the field. It is then manured with mud
from the bottoms of the reservoirs, and ploughed again twice. The
channels are then formed, and in them the cuttings are laid down,
two and two being always placed parallel. A Colaga of land requires
50,000. The channels are then filled with water, and the cuttings
are trodden jnto the mud with the feet. The second watering is on
the 4th day, the third watering on the 12th; afterwards the field,
if the soil be good, must be watered once a fortnight; or once a
week, if it part with its moisture quickly. On the 20th day the
field is weeded with the small hoe called Molu Potu, which implies
that the operation is done very superficially. On the 35th day the
whole field is dug with the large hoe called Yella Kudali; and, the
earth being thrown up toward the canes in ridges, the channels for
conveying the water run between the rows. About the 90th day
the canes are tied up with a leaf of the plant in parcels of five or
six, and once a month this is repeated. When the cane is ten
months old, the crop begins, and in thirty days it must be finished.