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40
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
•Tan, 22.
Yenalu crop
sown Mola.
CHAPTER The busks are beaten off in the course of two or three months, and
XIV .
immediately sold. The rough rice is put into large pots, over-
night, with so much water as will cover it. In the morning it is
boiled until the husks begin to open. It is then dried in the sun,
and beaten in a small hole in the ground, or in a stone with a long
pestle, the end of which is covered with iron. For the use of Brah-
mans, a little is beaten without having been boiled; but it does not
preserve long.
The rices that are cultivated as sprouted seed for the Yenalu crop
on By hi land are thus managed. The ploughings and manure are
conducted exactly in the same manner as in the field on which the
seedlings are raised; but, in order to gain time, they are made
fifteen days later. The seed is prepared by putting the Moray, or
straw bag, in which it has been kept, into water from the evening
until next day at noon. The bag is then removed into the house,
and in the morning of the fourth day is opened, the seed is sprinkled
with dung and water, and immediately sown. After having been
sown, it is managed like the seedlings ; but the weeds are removed
about the 26th of July. The quantity of seed required on the
same ground for the sprouted seed cultivation, is to that required
for transplantation, as two to three.
In the Sughi crop on Bylu land the rice is mostly cultivated as
sprouted seed. It is inferior in quality to the rice of the Yenalu
crop, and is chiefly reserved for home consumption. Being reaped
in the hot and dry season, the straw, though short, is well dried, and
is a valuable supply of fodder. The sprouted seed for this crop is
thus cultivated. Between the 16th of October and the 14th of No-
vember, immediately after the Yenalu crop has been reaped, the
ploughings commence; and are carried on exactly as before de-
scribed ; only in place of one man's standing on the plank drawn by
oxen, the ground being now harder, three or four men must stand
on this instrument; a most barbarous and expensive manner of
adding weight; but in India it is seldom that an attempt is made
Sugh
gin crop.
40
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
•Tan, 22.
Yenalu crop
sown Mola.
CHAPTER The busks are beaten off in the course of two or three months, and
XIV .
immediately sold. The rough rice is put into large pots, over-
night, with so much water as will cover it. In the morning it is
boiled until the husks begin to open. It is then dried in the sun,
and beaten in a small hole in the ground, or in a stone with a long
pestle, the end of which is covered with iron. For the use of Brah-
mans, a little is beaten without having been boiled; but it does not
preserve long.
The rices that are cultivated as sprouted seed for the Yenalu crop
on By hi land are thus managed. The ploughings and manure are
conducted exactly in the same manner as in the field on which the
seedlings are raised; but, in order to gain time, they are made
fifteen days later. The seed is prepared by putting the Moray, or
straw bag, in which it has been kept, into water from the evening
until next day at noon. The bag is then removed into the house,
and in the morning of the fourth day is opened, the seed is sprinkled
with dung and water, and immediately sown. After having been
sown, it is managed like the seedlings ; but the weeds are removed
about the 26th of July. The quantity of seed required on the
same ground for the sprouted seed cultivation, is to that required
for transplantation, as two to three.
In the Sughi crop on Bylu land the rice is mostly cultivated as
sprouted seed. It is inferior in quality to the rice of the Yenalu
crop, and is chiefly reserved for home consumption. Being reaped
in the hot and dry season, the straw, though short, is well dried, and
is a valuable supply of fodder. The sprouted seed for this crop is
thus cultivated. Between the 16th of October and the 14th of No-
vember, immediately after the Yenalu crop has been reaped, the
ploughings commence; and are carried on exactly as before de-
scribed ; only in place of one man's standing on the plank drawn by
oxen, the ground being now harder, three or four men must stand
on this instrument; a most barbarous and expensive manner of
adding weight; but in India it is seldom that an attempt is made
Sugh
gin crop.