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III : A stout-growing hardy perennial usually declining after it 

 has borne 2 or 3 heavy crops. It is therefore advisable to replant it 

 every fourth year. In permanent plantations before any active growth 

 commences, beginning of November, the decayed steins and leaves are 

 removed and the crop heavily manured. 



A deep, moist, rich soil, better loamy, is requisite for the produc- 

 tion of large, fine fleshy heads. Liberal manuring in the form of well- 

 rotten dung and plenty of water, except when the crop is at rest. 

 from about April to November. It is one of the most paying crops. 



Cyperus alopecuroides ; Samar baladi ; The foxtail sedge ; 



Cyperaceae- 



II : By suckers obtained from old stocks. About 2 kerats of suckers 

 per fdn. 



Ill : From beginning of April to the end of July. As a rule two 

 crops are grown the one early in April, harvested in July and Ihe 

 next in July, harvested in November. 



V : Four months after planting. 



VII: (a) It grows to assist the reclamation of salt land, requiring 

 for its growth a large amouni of water which in a great measure 

 completes the sweetening of the land. 



(b) Grown for its steins, generally "3 5 feet high, which are 

 largely made into mats, the host mats being made from the long stems. 



VIII : This rush-like herb is chiefly cultivated in the Charkieh 

 province. A perennial herb, generally annual under cultivation. It 

 is cultivated instead of either Rice or Dinaeba in salt lands of bad 

 quality. It will grow on very salt lands where rice or dinaeba will 

 not and though it requires a large quantity of water and must be 

 kept continually wet, it does not require as much as either Rice or 

 Dinaeba and can withstand a longer rotation. It resists better to 

 drought as well as to want of continual draining, without being 

 harmed. It is a paying crop the average produce of n fdn. of good 

 Samar being from 4050 kantars. realizing an average net profit of 



