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SMALL MILLETS. 



Sdn'Mdn. 



These small millets do not form a large proportion of the food crops of 

 ihe district, but are grown in sufficient quantities to warrant notice. Statis- 

 tics are given above. 



Kdkun is sown in gauhan lands, and the ground is manured. TLe head 

 is pulled from the stalks by the hand, the tree is not 

 cut ; the green stalks are given as fodder ; what is left 

 goes into the manure pit. A second crop is always grown after Mkun is cut. 

 Sdnwdn is sown alone in a similar manner, but often (in the Jumna par- 

 ganas) with jwdr, before which it is cut. By being 

 sown with so tall a crop it escapes the ravages of birds 

 and insects. Us leaves too are rough (kharJchara), and an insect if it crawls 

 en them sticks, and cannot progress ; hence jwdr too benefits by the sdnwdn 

 entrapping the " agia." When cut it is stacked to ferment (dandak), by which 

 the seed is more easily separated from tho ear; it is then threshed out with 

 sticks. Four men will thresh and winnow out in a dav the produce of Sdnwdn 

 sown with other crops. There are two kinds, " lal " and " maila," the latter 

 being the better. Sdnwdn is looked upon quite as an extra, and not 

 usually sold, but consumed in the house in the shape of bread, or as rice 

 (bhdt) ; partridges and quail too are fed on it and kangni. Being, when sown 

 alone, cut by October, it is always followed by a second crop. 



Chena or chenwa is very little grown in this district ; it takes a great deal 

 of watering, as ono day's " hot wind " (luh} may kill it, or scatter the grain, if 

 any, from the ear. The stalks are of no use as fodder, but are thrown on tho 

 manure heap or used as bedding. 



