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again, and a wall built round it to protect it from pigs, &c., after which the 

 field will be manured by farm-yard refuse mixed with mud from the village 

 pond. Some grain may yet be got out of the colder (guthra,) and then the cane 

 must be watered again and ploughed up j for the latter job hired assistance is 

 necessary. By this time the rains may be again expected. For the method 

 and cost of expressing the juice from the cane see the separate description. 

 To express the juice from one bigha of cane will take eight days, the cultivator 

 using his own cattle if he can find leisure from his irrigating, or, as sometimes 

 happens, if he has no leisure, he will sell the field of standing cane, which 

 fetch about Us. 40. 



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