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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER-
IX. Produce of a Bulla land.
x-^v^^»/ Gopdly Fanams.
Oct. 16, if. jst year, 288 Bulks of Cambu, average value - - 57-f
2d year, July crop seven Tucusof cotton, January crop 8Tucus45
3d year, ditto - two ditto ----- ditto two ditto 12
Cotton called
Upum Pirati.
GopdlyFanams 114f
This, divided by three for the years employed, would give only
38-f Gopdly Fanams for the yearly gross produce of a Bulla land of
the worst quality, or 3 s. l\a. an acre.
The Upum cotton is raised on Erum bumy, or black mould; and
in this kind of cultivation the following succession of crops is
taken: first year cotton; second year cotton; third year Cambu
(Holcus spicatus) ; fourth year Sholum (Holms sorghum). The cot-
ton ought to have dung, but this is sometimes omitted. The ma-
nure is first put on, and then the field is ploughed four times, from
about the middle of August to that of October. With the first rain,
in the following month, the cotton-seed is sown broad-cast, and
ploughed down. From the 12th of December to the 12th of Ja-
nuary, the weeds are removed by a small hoe named Cotu. The
crop is collected from about the beginning of April until the 10th
of May. If there come rain afterwards, there is from the middle
of July to that of August another small crop, and then the field is
ploughed up again for the second year's crop, which is managed
exactly like the first. The two crops of cotton are nearly equal in
quantity and quality. The Upum cotton sells for nearly the same
price as the Nadum, although the wool is not of so good a quality;
but then its seeds bear a smaller proportion to the wool, than those
of the Nadum cotton do. A Bulla of land requires eight Bullas of
seed, and in favourable seasons produces fifteen Turns in April, and
five Tucus in July. The merchants sell it, with the seed, to the
women who spin. A woman takes two days to clean one Tucu of
cotton, and to fit it for spinning.
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER-
IX. Produce of a Bulla land.
x-^v^^»/ Gopdly Fanams.
Oct. 16, if. jst year, 288 Bulks of Cambu, average value - - 57-f
2d year, July crop seven Tucusof cotton, January crop 8Tucus45
3d year, ditto - two ditto ----- ditto two ditto 12
Cotton called
Upum Pirati.
GopdlyFanams 114f
This, divided by three for the years employed, would give only
38-f Gopdly Fanams for the yearly gross produce of a Bulla land of
the worst quality, or 3 s. l\a. an acre.
The Upum cotton is raised on Erum bumy, or black mould; and
in this kind of cultivation the following succession of crops is
taken: first year cotton; second year cotton; third year Cambu
(Holcus spicatus) ; fourth year Sholum (Holms sorghum). The cot-
ton ought to have dung, but this is sometimes omitted. The ma-
nure is first put on, and then the field is ploughed four times, from
about the middle of August to that of October. With the first rain,
in the following month, the cotton-seed is sown broad-cast, and
ploughed down. From the 12th of December to the 12th of Ja-
nuary, the weeds are removed by a small hoe named Cotu. The
crop is collected from about the beginning of April until the 10th
of May. If there come rain afterwards, there is from the middle
of July to that of August another small crop, and then the field is
ploughed up again for the second year's crop, which is managed
exactly like the first. The two crops of cotton are nearly equal in
quantity and quality. The Upum cotton sells for nearly the same
price as the Nadum, although the wool is not of so good a quality;
but then its seeds bear a smaller proportion to the wool, than those
of the Nadum cotton do. A Bulla of land requires eight Bullas of
seed, and in favourable seasons produces fifteen Turns in April, and
five Tucus in July. The merchants sell it, with the seed, to the
women who spin. A woman takes two days to clean one Tucu of
cotton, and to fit it for spinning.