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WHEAT. 

 (Rabi.) 



NAME OF OBOF. 



STATISTICS PEB ACBE. 



Varieties. 



Land, manure, &c. 



1 . Dudya, white beardless. Full-grain soft husk, 

 thick stalk, clean white flour (commonly called seta). 



2. Mandya, beardless, rarely sown, chaff hard. 



3. Manneya, bearded, reddish grain, amount of chaff above average, 

 short stalk. 



4. Pisiya, small tree, few grains, but a larger grain than kathiya, sweet 

 flour, but gets heavy (aintha) when cold. Very liable to rust. 



5. Kathiya,) red bearded, thick stalk and grain, many stalks to one plant. 

 Flour very digestible. 



The best land in the village is usually chosen, especially for dudya. 

 Loam preferred if manure not heavy, but well ma- 

 nured sandy soil equally good as well manured loam. 

 Manure seldom put on specially for wheat, which generally follows cane or 

 cotton, for which the land has been well manured. Kathiya is sown unman ured 

 in mar soils. Pisiya is sown in the kachhdr lands (hence liability to rust and 

 frost-bite, the ground being cold and wet). 



As a rule, eight to twelve ploughings are required, followed each time by a 

 harrowing. Manneya requires less ploughing, and 

 for kathiya the mar soil is ploughed twice only, but 

 with the " bakhar." 



Wheat is sown after 15th October (swati nichattar). It is sown through 

 a " bans" attached to the plough, the seed of sarson 

 being mixed with the wheat. The field is then 

 harrowed. The other subordinate crops are sown in lines eight feet apart. Two 

 men and a yoke of oxen can" sow and harrow a field of an acre in two days. 



Ploughing. 



Sowing. 



