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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER Pagoda for every four Maunds, each containing- 40 Seers of 24
YTV
K^^f Rupees weight. This is at the rate of very nearly a penny a pound,
May 10. being 94. 3~d. a hundred weight. In order to prepare the seedlings,
a plot of ground must be dug in the mouth which precedes the
longest clay. It must be then cleared from stones, and separated
by little banks into squares for watering, in the same manner as in
this country is done to kitchen gardens. The tobacco seed is then
mixed with dung, and sown in the squares, which are smoothed
with the hand, sprinkled with water, and then covered with
branches of the wild date. Every third day it must be watered.
On the 8th day the plants come up, and then the palm branches must
be removed. If the plants be wanted soon, they ought to have more
dung, and to be kept clear from weeds. W ith this management,
they are fit for transplanting in from a month to six weeks. If
they are not wanted for two months, or ten weeks, the second
dunging is omitted, and the growth of the plants is checked by
giving them no water for eight days after they come up.
Value ofland A JVocula of Ragy land plants 4000 tobacco stems, and in a good
cutivated for cr0p produces 1(5 Maunds, worth four Sultany Pagodas. This ground
would sow one Colaga of Ragy, and produce two Candacas, or forty
fold, worth 2 Pagodas. The Colaga or Wocula-land, of the first
quality used for tobacco, pays a tax of one Pagoda; of the 2d
quality it pays •£ of a Pagoda; of the 3d, or worst quality, it pays
half a Pagoda. I measured a field said to require \\ Colaga of Ragy
for seed, and found it to contain 15,000 square feet. The JVocula
land, therefore, should contain 100,000 square feet; but, lfalFocula
plants 4000 tobacco stems at \\ cubit distance, which I found to be
the actual thickness, more than one fourth of this extent cannot
be allowed for it. The number of 4000 plants, that can be put in a
Wocula of land, was afterwards confirmed to me at Jamagullu. I am
quite uncertain, however, whether the actual measurement, or a
calculation founded on the number of plants, ought to be preferred.
By the former, the acre of the first quality of land would pay a
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER Pagoda for every four Maunds, each containing- 40 Seers of 24
YTV
K^^f Rupees weight. This is at the rate of very nearly a penny a pound,
May 10. being 94. 3~d. a hundred weight. In order to prepare the seedlings,
a plot of ground must be dug in the mouth which precedes the
longest clay. It must be then cleared from stones, and separated
by little banks into squares for watering, in the same manner as in
this country is done to kitchen gardens. The tobacco seed is then
mixed with dung, and sown in the squares, which are smoothed
with the hand, sprinkled with water, and then covered with
branches of the wild date. Every third day it must be watered.
On the 8th day the plants come up, and then the palm branches must
be removed. If the plants be wanted soon, they ought to have more
dung, and to be kept clear from weeds. W ith this management,
they are fit for transplanting in from a month to six weeks. If
they are not wanted for two months, or ten weeks, the second
dunging is omitted, and the growth of the plants is checked by
giving them no water for eight days after they come up.
Value ofland A JVocula of Ragy land plants 4000 tobacco stems, and in a good
cutivated for cr0p produces 1(5 Maunds, worth four Sultany Pagodas. This ground
would sow one Colaga of Ragy, and produce two Candacas, or forty
fold, worth 2 Pagodas. The Colaga or Wocula-land, of the first
quality used for tobacco, pays a tax of one Pagoda; of the 2d
quality it pays •£ of a Pagoda; of the 3d, or worst quality, it pays
half a Pagoda. I measured a field said to require \\ Colaga of Ragy
for seed, and found it to contain 15,000 square feet. The JVocula
land, therefore, should contain 100,000 square feet; but, lfalFocula
plants 4000 tobacco stems at \\ cubit distance, which I found to be
the actual thickness, more than one fourth of this extent cannot
be allowed for it. The number of 4000 plants, that can be put in a
Wocula of land, was afterwards confirmed to me at Jamagullu. I am
quite uncertain, however, whether the actual measurement, or a
calculation founded on the number of plants, ought to be preferred.
By the former, the acre of the first quality of land would pay a