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where it soaks a whole night. Next day it is kept ,in the wet bag, CHAPTER
and on the third day it is found ready for sowing, having pushed
forth small sprouts. The field is sown on the third day after the 0ctt 19<
leaves have been put in, being covered to the depth of one inch
with water. The seed is sown broad-cast, and excessively thick, or
at the rate of forty-eight Candacas of seed for one Candaca of land.
This serves to transplant into thirty-two Candacas; so that one
Candaca and a half of seed are required for a Candaca of land, or
2^ bushels for an acre. On the day after sowing the seed the field
is drained. Every other day, for four times, it is covered in the
morning with water, which is let off again at night: afterwards it is
kept constantly inundated, deeper and deeper as the plants grow.
The proper time for transplanting is between the thirtieth and
fortieth days; but poor people are often compelled, by want, to
protract the operation until between the fortieth and fiftieth days,
which injures their crops. In a few days after the seed is sown, the
fields in which the seedlings are to ripen are inundated for three or
four hours ; then ploughed once ; then inundated for eight days ;
then ploughed a second time, having been previously drained ; and
at similar intervals they must get a third and fourth ploughing,
with intervening inundations: so that the fourth ploughing must
be on the twenty-fourth day. The field is then kept inundated
until the rice is going to be transplanted; and, superfluous water
having been let off, the mud is then ploughed a fifth time, and
smoothed with a plank (Parnmbu) drawn by oxen. The seedlings
are transplanted into it in the course of that and the following day.
The seedlings, after being plucked, may be preserved in water five
days before they are planted. After having been transplanted,
they are allowed water, for the first time, on the fifth day. This
water is drained as soon as the field has been filled; and for
the next eight days it is allowed to run in at one side of the field,
and out at another. The field is kept afterwards constantly inun-
dated, except on the day when it is to be weeded, which is the
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where it soaks a whole night. Next day it is kept ,in the wet bag, CHAPTER
and on the third day it is found ready for sowing, having pushed
forth small sprouts. The field is sown on the third day after the 0ctt 19<
leaves have been put in, being covered to the depth of one inch
with water. The seed is sown broad-cast, and excessively thick, or
at the rate of forty-eight Candacas of seed for one Candaca of land.
This serves to transplant into thirty-two Candacas; so that one
Candaca and a half of seed are required for a Candaca of land, or
2^ bushels for an acre. On the day after sowing the seed the field
is drained. Every other day, for four times, it is covered in the
morning with water, which is let off again at night: afterwards it is
kept constantly inundated, deeper and deeper as the plants grow.
The proper time for transplanting is between the thirtieth and
fortieth days; but poor people are often compelled, by want, to
protract the operation until between the fortieth and fiftieth days,
which injures their crops. In a few days after the seed is sown, the
fields in which the seedlings are to ripen are inundated for three or
four hours ; then ploughed once ; then inundated for eight days ;
then ploughed a second time, having been previously drained ; and
at similar intervals they must get a third and fourth ploughing,
with intervening inundations: so that the fourth ploughing must
be on the twenty-fourth day. The field is then kept inundated
until the rice is going to be transplanted; and, superfluous water
having been let off, the mud is then ploughed a fifth time, and
smoothed with a plank (Parnmbu) drawn by oxen. The seedlings
are transplanted into it in the course of that and the following day.
The seedlings, after being plucked, may be preserved in water five
days before they are planted. After having been transplanted,
they are allowed water, for the first time, on the fifth day. This
water is drained as soon as the field has been filled; and for
the next eight days it is allowed to run in at one side of the field,
and out at another. The field is kept afterwards constantly inun-
dated, except on the day when it is to be weeded, which is the
Vol. II. H h