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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
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discourages this kind of cultivation, as it takes away useful hands CHAPTER
from the plough. A man can cut down and burn the trees growing x^^L.
on one culy of land, or rather less than one acre. When he sows, in Oct. H.
order to do the whole quickly, he hires as many labourers as he can;
but he is again hired to sow the field of his neighbour. On this
extent of land, besides one puddy of cotton-seed, may be sown five
puddles of Horse-gram, and eight puddles of Cambu, or Tenay. In the
first year it will produce two hundred and forty puddles of Horse-
gram, and two hundred and sixty of Cambu, or Tenay. The second
year's crop will be about one hundred and sixty puddles of Horse-
gram, and one hundred and seventy-two of Cambu or Tenay, with
four tucus of cotton-wool. One acre at this rate will in the first
year produce about six bushels of Horse-gram, and six and a half
of Cambu, or Tenay ; in the second year four bushels of Horse-gram,
a little more than four of Cambu, or Tenay, and about thirty-two
pounds of cotton-wool.
15th October,—I went ten Malabar hours* journey to Bhawdni- Oct. is.
hudal, called in our maps Boviny Coral. The country on the right 0nhTcoun-
of the Cavery is free from hills, except one conical mountain, which try-
rises from the bank of the river near Bhawdni. The soil in general
is stony, or sandy; but in some places the stones are mixed with a
strong red clay. At one reservoir, the people have recommenced
the cultivation of rice, and have cleared about three acres for the
purpose; all the other cultivation that I saw was that of dry-field.
A very small proportion of the country is, however, cultivated.
The Cambu (Holcus spicatus), which is here the prevailing crop,
looks much better than it did above the Ghats. At Ama-petta, a
town containing about forty houses, and full of inhabitants, not a
single spot of ground was cultivated; the people being all mer-
chants and weavers. I crossed two rivulets,, the Sltaru and Punachl. Irrigation.
The former supplied a large reservoir with water; but this was
broken down by the flood that has destroyed so many others in the
neighbourhood, and has never been repaired. The ground that it
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discourages this kind of cultivation, as it takes away useful hands CHAPTER
from the plough. A man can cut down and burn the trees growing x^^L.
on one culy of land, or rather less than one acre. When he sows, in Oct. H.
order to do the whole quickly, he hires as many labourers as he can;
but he is again hired to sow the field of his neighbour. On this
extent of land, besides one puddy of cotton-seed, may be sown five
puddles of Horse-gram, and eight puddles of Cambu, or Tenay. In the
first year it will produce two hundred and forty puddles of Horse-
gram, and two hundred and sixty of Cambu, or Tenay. The second
year's crop will be about one hundred and sixty puddles of Horse-
gram, and one hundred and seventy-two of Cambu or Tenay, with
four tucus of cotton-wool. One acre at this rate will in the first
year produce about six bushels of Horse-gram, and six and a half
of Cambu, or Tenay ; in the second year four bushels of Horse-gram,
a little more than four of Cambu, or Tenay, and about thirty-two
pounds of cotton-wool.
15th October,—I went ten Malabar hours* journey to Bhawdni- Oct. is.
hudal, called in our maps Boviny Coral. The country on the right 0nhTcoun-
of the Cavery is free from hills, except one conical mountain, which try-
rises from the bank of the river near Bhawdni. The soil in general
is stony, or sandy; but in some places the stones are mixed with a
strong red clay. At one reservoir, the people have recommenced
the cultivation of rice, and have cleared about three acres for the
purpose; all the other cultivation that I saw was that of dry-field.
A very small proportion of the country is, however, cultivated.
The Cambu (Holcus spicatus), which is here the prevailing crop,
looks much better than it did above the Ghats. At Ama-petta, a
town containing about forty houses, and full of inhabitants, not a
single spot of ground was cultivated; the people being all mer-
chants and weavers. I crossed two rivulets,, the Sltaru and Punachl. Irrigation.
The former supplied a large reservoir with water; but this was
broken down by the flood that has destroyed so many others in the
neighbourhood, and has never been repaired. The ground that it