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MUSTARD. 



(Oilseeds.) 



Rdi. 



These plants are usually sown with wheat, barley, or their mixtures, partly 

 to supply green food to the cattle, but chiefly for oil. 



Rdi is a third taller than sarson and spreads more, its leaf being larger, 

 but pods smaller : in these the seeds lie with a twist 

 (as if rifled), are small and dark: those of sarson lie 

 in two rows divided by a partition, and are yellow in colour. There are more 

 flowers also in one head ofrdi, and the petals spread more widely than in sarson. 

 It is always sown in rows because from its size it might injure the rabi. It is 

 given to cattle green, and its seed is pressed for oil, giving of gross weight of 

 produce one-fifth oil to four-fifths oilcake. The oil is not used for food, but the 

 seeds are ground and put in pickles, &c., to give a flavour. 



Sarson is sown scattered. Its seed gives one-third oil to gross weight. 

 The oil is known by the name " karua tel," and is 

 dearer than sweet (mithd) oils. It is mostly eaten, and 

 not burnt. 



Dudn or seohdn is the smallest of the three, and is never three feet high ; its 

 branches are bent, and on each bend is a sprout. The 

 pods are small like buds, the flower is a faint yellow mixed 

 with white. The leaf is small, there being four on one knot. It is sown round the 

 rabi field generally (and hence called mendha), and much given as green food to 

 cattle. The seed is pressed for oil, which is never eaten, but burnt or used for 

 hair oil. The seed is threshed out of the plant in the usual way ; the stalks are 

 not given as fodder. 



Sarson. 



Dudn. 



