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days. It is then cut off for a week, after which, 

 if it rains, no further water is requisite ; if not, 

 water is admitted once a week during the following 

 month. The digging is then repeated, and the 

 earth levelled with the hand about the stools. 



The stems of each stool ^are about a do&en in 

 number, but are reduced to five or six by the 

 weakliest being now removed. The healthy canes, 

 are bound with one of their own leaves, two or three 

 together, to check spreading ; and this is repeated 

 as required by their increased growth. In the 

 absence of rain, the trenches are filled with water 

 once a fortnight. 



Whenever the Puttaputti is kept for a second 

 crop, the dry leaves cut off in the crop season are 

 burnt upon the field, which is dug over, and the 

 trenches filled with water ; and during six weeks 

 the plants are watered every sixth or eighth day 

 (unless of course rain falls), and the digging is. 

 repeated three times, dung being added each time. 

 The after-culture is the same as for the first crop, 



In the Upper Provinces, Dr. Tennant says, if 

 moderate showers fall after planting, nothing more 

 is done until the young shoots have attained a 

 height of two or three inches, when the soil in their 

 immediate vicinity is loosened with a small weed- 

 ing iron, something like a chisel ; but should the 

 season be dry, the field is occasionally watered, 

 the weeding being also continued, and the soil from 



