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When the canes are planted in the spring, the 

 trenches must be filled with water, and some 

 poured into every hole. At the other season of 

 planting the trenches are full, it being rainy 

 weather ; but even then the sets must be watered 

 for the first month. Mr, Haines says that in 

 Mirzapore and the neighbouring districts, " in 

 planting the cane they commence a farrow round 

 the field, in which they drop the cuttings. The 

 second furrow is left empty ; cuttings again in the 

 third ; so they continue dropping cuttings in 

 every second furrow till the whole field is com- 

 pleted, finishing in the centre of the field. The 

 field remains in this state till the second or third 

 day, when for two or three days in succession it 

 is made even and hard upon the surface with the 

 hengah as before stated."- (Trans. Agri-Hort. 

 Soc., VI., 6.) 



Mr. Vaupell, in describing the most successful 

 mode of cultivating the Mauritius sugarcane in 

 Bombay, says that " after the ground is levelled, 

 with the small plough called paur, in the manner 

 of the cultivators, pits of two feet in diameter 

 and two feet in depth should be dug throughout 

 the field at the distance of five feet apart, and 

 filled with manure and soil to about three inches 

 of the surface. Set in these pits your canes, cut 

 in pieces about a foot and a half long, laying 

 them down hi a triangular form, thus /\. Keep 



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