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remain exposed to the air, and are then manured 

 with ashes and oil-cake, and covered with earth.* 

 Weeds must be removed as they spring up ; and when 

 the plants are about a cubit high, the field must 

 be ploughed. When they have grown a cubit 

 higher, which is between the 13th June and the 

 14th July, they are tied together in bundles of 

 three or four, by wrapping them round with their 

 own leaves. This is done partly to prevent them 

 being laid down by the wind, and partly to prevent 

 them from being eaten by jackals. During the 

 next month, three or four of these bunches are tied 

 together ; and about the end of September, when 

 the canes grow rank, they are supported by bamboo 

 stakes driven in the ground. They are cut between 

 the middle of December and the end of March." 



If the canes grow too vigorously, developing a 

 superabundance of leaves, it is a good practice to 

 remove the decayed ones, usually low down, that 

 the stems may be fully exposed to the sun. In 

 the West Indies this is called trashing the canes. 

 It requires discretion ; for in dry soils or seasons, 

 or if the leaves are removed before quite dead, 

 more injury than benefit will be occasioned. 



Harvesting. The seasons when the canes become 

 ripe in various districts has already been noticed 

 when treating on their cultivation. Supplementary 

 thereto I may state that, in the Rajahmundry Circar, 

 about the mouth of the Godavery, Dr. Roxburgh 



