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(Cajanus indicus) or of Aus paddy (if the land i-s not too poor 

 or exhausted by cropping) should be taken. After the Aus 

 paddy, a crop of potatoes may be taken again, and then sugar- 

 cane may come in also. After the arahar, (which occupies 

 the land for 9 or 10 months), sugar-cane may follow imme- 

 diately afterwards, if growing of sugar-cane is the main 

 object of the farm. Otherwise, greater prominence is to 

 be given to ordinary agricultural crops, and one of the 

 systems of rotation described in pages 366 368, adopted, 

 according to the nature of the soil. As indigo-planters 

 are proposing to go in largely for sugar cane, it should 

 be noted here that indigo and sugar cane form an excellent 

 rotation. The slack season for indigo, viz., December to 

 April, is the busiest season for sugar-cane. From May to 

 November scarcely anything need be done to sugar-cane. 

 Letting out the water from fields, tying the canes and one 

 hoeing, are all the operations, needed during these seven 

 months when indigo is being sown, cut, steeped and manu- 

 factured. 



614. Manuring. Sugar-cane responds well to a heavy 

 outlay in manures. The following mixtures are recom- 

 mended : 



(1) Bone-meal 10 maunds per acre applied before sowing. 

 Castor-cake 20 maunds per acre applied after sowing, in two 



doses. 



(2) Cowdung 600 maunds per acre ploughed in before trenching. 

 Bone-meal 10 maunds per acre before sowing. 



(3) Bone-meal 10 maunds per acre applied before sowing. 

 Saltpetre 3 maunds per acre applied in two doses after the 



plants are a foot high, but before June. 



(4) Powdered apatite 6 maunds per acre applied before sowing. 

 Saltpetre 4 maunds per acre applied in two doses after the 



plants are a foot high, but before June. 



(s) Castor-cake 25 maunds per acre applied in two doses before 

 the two earthings. 



