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the daws are new, but with dry potter's clay afterwards. They 

 may even require tempering once or twice in a season. The tip is 

 especially looked to. If too sharp and pointed, it cuts into the trees 

 and injures them, sometimes fatally, and if too blunt, it tears the 

 tissues, whereas a clean cut must be obtained. 



The following plan illustrates the daily round of work in the 

 garden : 



ORDER or TAPPING. 



As a rule there is no dokat or tekat juice in November. In 

 December dokat juice as well as jiran is obtained. In January we 

 have jiran, dokat and tekat juices. 



Towards the end of January and thence till the end of the 

 season, the trees are slightly cut for dokat juice as well as for jiran. 

 That is, they are cut on two successive nights (1) for the jiran, 

 (2) for dokat. Dokat juice yielded from a surface cut afresh is 

 called dokat pocha. A fair amount of juice drops from the cut 



