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ground is frequently ploughed, until brought into 

 a very fine tilth. About the end of May or 

 beginning of June, the rains usually commence, 

 and the canes are then planted. If the rains do 

 not set in so early, the land is flooded artificially, 

 and when converted into a soft mud, whether by 

 the rain or by flooding, the canes are planted. 



In Mysore the ground is watered for three days, 

 dried for a like period, then ploughed, which is 

 repeated five times during the following eight days. 

 The clods during this operation are broken into 

 small pieces by an instrument called col-kudali. The 

 field is then ploughed a sixth time. After fifteen 

 days it is ploughed again twice in the course of 

 one or two days. After an interval of eight days it 

 is ploughed the ninth time. Altogether these 

 operations occupy about forty-four days. For 

 planting, which is completed in six days, an imple- 

 ment called yella-kudali is employed. 



In Dinajpore, " the field, from about the middle 

 of October until about the 10th January, receives 

 ten or twelve double ploughings, and, after, each is 

 smoothed with the moyi. During the last three 

 months of this time it is manured with cow- dung 

 and mud from ponds and ditches. On this account, 

 the land fit for sugarcane is generally divided into 

 fields by wide ditches, into which much mud is 

 washed by the rain, and is again thrown on the 

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