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cutting the crop, it is not usual again to grow 

 sugarcane on the same ground for eighteen 

 months, on account of the indifferent produce 

 afforded by a more early planting." 



In the Zillah North Moradabad, the land is 

 broken up at the end of June. When the rains 

 cease, it is manured, and receives eight or ten 

 ploughings, which clears it of weeds. In February 

 it is again manured and ploughed four or five 

 times, and just before the sets are planted, some 

 dung four cart-loads to each cutcha beegah of low 

 land, and five to high land are added. The land 

 is well rolled after the four last ploughings, and 

 again after the cuttings are set. 



About Benares and the neighbouring districts 

 Mr. Haines says that, owing to the hot winds which 

 prevail " from March until the setting in of the 

 annual rains in June or July, the lands remain 

 fallow till that period. In the meantime, those 

 fields that are selected for sugarcane are partially 

 manured by throwing upon them all manner of 

 rubbish they can collect, and by herding their 

 buffaloes and cattle upon them at night, though 

 most of the manure from the latter source is again 

 collected and dried for fuel. When the annual 

 rains have fairly set in, and the Assaree crops sown 

 (in some instances I have seen an Assaree crop 

 taken from the lands intended for sugarcane), 

 they commence ploughing the cane-lands and, 



