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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
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greatly over-rate their expenses, or under-rate trie produce and CHAPTER
extent of the land cultivated by one plough; and probably they k^^^j
do both ; but what the real state is, I could not ascertain. y 13,
The only manure used here is from the dunghill, in which, with Cattle and
all the cow-dung, the ashes and sweepings of the house are collected. manure'
The cattle sleep the whole year in the house, but are never littered,
which is a very great defect in the agriculture of a country. On
the Malayar side of the Bhadri rivulet, the size of the cattle dimi-
nishes, and sheep will not thrive; and in that country neither asses
nor swine are bred.
A considerable trade is carried on between Bailuru and Jamdl- Commerce,
Mad. The goods imported from the country below the Ghats are
betel-nut, ginger, pepper, Cassia (Laurus), Cachora (Acorus), Cas-
turi (a kind of turmeric), turmeric, and salt. The goods sent from
Bailuru are tobacco, Jagory, capsicum, cummin-seed, Danya, (a seed
like anise), tamarinds, iron, grain, buffaloes, onions, mustard, cot-
ton cloth and thread, and blankets (Cumlies).
I found here two men whom an officer now stationed at Arcot Cochineal.
employed in rearing cochineal. They have been in this country one
year, have sent to their employer fifteen Maunds, have fifteen Maunds
ready for sale, and, before the insects have consumed all the Nopals
(Cactus) that are near the town, they expect to have ten Maunds
more. When this happens, they will carry two men's load of branches
filled with the insect, and apply these to the Nopals of some other
place; where they will remain until the insects breed, and consume all
the plants. The Nopalslci&ve been raised by the farmers as fences round
their gardens, but were sold by the officers of revenue for four Ba-
hadury Pagodas, or about a guinea and a half. So soon as all the
plants have been consumed, such of the insects as have not been
collected will perish; and the Amildar says, that he will then com-
pel the farmers to plant new hedges of the Nopal; but I suspect
that few plants will be reared, unless the farmers get a large share
of the profits, as indeed they ought in reason to do. The hedges
300
greatly over-rate their expenses, or under-rate trie produce and CHAPTER
extent of the land cultivated by one plough; and probably they k^^^j
do both ; but what the real state is, I could not ascertain. y 13,
The only manure used here is from the dunghill, in which, with Cattle and
all the cow-dung, the ashes and sweepings of the house are collected. manure'
The cattle sleep the whole year in the house, but are never littered,
which is a very great defect in the agriculture of a country. On
the Malayar side of the Bhadri rivulet, the size of the cattle dimi-
nishes, and sheep will not thrive; and in that country neither asses
nor swine are bred.
A considerable trade is carried on between Bailuru and Jamdl- Commerce,
Mad. The goods imported from the country below the Ghats are
betel-nut, ginger, pepper, Cassia (Laurus), Cachora (Acorus), Cas-
turi (a kind of turmeric), turmeric, and salt. The goods sent from
Bailuru are tobacco, Jagory, capsicum, cummin-seed, Danya, (a seed
like anise), tamarinds, iron, grain, buffaloes, onions, mustard, cot-
ton cloth and thread, and blankets (Cumlies).
I found here two men whom an officer now stationed at Arcot Cochineal.
employed in rearing cochineal. They have been in this country one
year, have sent to their employer fifteen Maunds, have fifteen Maunds
ready for sale, and, before the insects have consumed all the Nopals
(Cactus) that are near the town, they expect to have ten Maunds
more. When this happens, they will carry two men's load of branches
filled with the insect, and apply these to the Nopals of some other
place; where they will remain until the insects breed, and consume all
the plants. The Nopalslci&ve been raised by the farmers as fences round
their gardens, but were sold by the officers of revenue for four Ba-
hadury Pagodas, or about a guinea and a half. So soon as all the
plants have been consumed, such of the insects as have not been
collected will perish; and the Amildar says, that he will then com-
pel the farmers to plant new hedges of the Nopal; but I suspect
that few plants will be reared, unless the farmers get a large share
of the profits, as indeed they ought in reason to do. The hedges