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repeatedly, length and breadth-ways ; after which 

 it is furrowed, the furrows half a cubit apart, in 

 which the plants are set at about four inches from 

 each other, when the furrows are filled up with the 

 earth forming their ridges, and, the plants being 

 thus set, the land is harrowed twice in different 

 directions, fifteen or twenty days afterwards the 

 cane sprouts, when the weeds that appear with it 

 are eliminated. Ten or twelve days after this, the 

 weeds re-appear, when they are again grubbed up, 

 and the earth at the roots of the canes being 

 removed, all the plants that have grown will appear. 



At Ghazipore the rains generally set in at the 

 beginning of March, when planting commences. 

 Near Calcutta this process is inaugurated in May 

 and June, while in Dinajpore and Rungpore the 

 planting-time is February. About Commercolly 

 it is performed in January. The field is divided 

 into beds six cubits broad, separated by inter- 

 vening small trenches fourteen inches wide and 

 eight deep. In every alternate trench are small 

 wells, about two feet deep. The irrigating water 

 flowing along the trenches fills these wells, and 

 is taken thence by hand and applied to the canes. 



Each bed has five rows of canes. The sets are 

 planted in holes about six inches in diameter and 

 three deep ; two sets, each with three joints, are 

 laid ' horizontally in every hole, covered slightly 

 with earth, and over this a little dung. 



