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to six inches long, thus having not more than 

 four knots in each. Two or three of these 

 plant-tops are put together in the ground, a 

 beegah requiring from 7,500 to 10,240 plants. 

 In Kungpore and Dinajpore about 9,000 plants, 

 each a foot long, are required for a beegah ; while 

 in Beerbhoom 3,000 plants are said to be requisite 

 for a beegah, each cane-top being about fifteen inches 

 long. In the neighbourhood of Calcutta from 

 3,000 to 8,000 plants are required for a beegah, 

 according to quality of soil, worst soils needing most 

 plants. In Mysore an acre contains 2,420 stools, 

 and yields about 11,000 ripe canes. Near Rajah- 

 mundry about 400 cuttings are planted on a cuteha 

 beegah (one-eighth of an acre). In the Zillah 

 North Moradabad, 4,200 sets, each eight inches 

 long, are inserted upon cuteha beegah of low land 

 and 5,250 upon high land. 



In the district of Gollagore, the ryots cut a 

 ripe cane into several pieces, with two or three joints 

 to each, and put them into a small bed composed of 

 rich mould, dung, and mustard-seed expressed of oil. 

 At Radnagore, when cutting time arrives, the cane- 

 tops are taken off, and placed perpendicularly in a 

 bed of mud for thirty or forty days, being covered 

 with leaves or straw, after which they are stripped of 

 any leaves, and cut into pieces, having not less than 

 two nor more than four joints each. These sets 

 are kept for ten or fifteen days in a bed prepared 



