In order to remove the grain from the stalk, the 

 rice is put into a kind of trough in which it is beaten 

 with a pestle. 



To remove the husk from the grain, these troughs are 

 also used; moreover mills of very simple construction : a 

 trough in which disks of wood, iron or stone, are propelled 

 by buffalos or by water. There are but very few mills in 

 Java after the model used in Europe. 



8. After the rice-crop if the soil be light 



enough the n sawahs" are used for the cultivation 

 of different kinds of vegetables which do not require 

 more than 2 or 3 months to fructify, such as : batates, 

 viqua sinensis, Soya Hispida, Capsicum, Solanum, Cucumis, 

 Arachis, Voandzeia subterrana, &c. In the Preanger, 

 in Bantam and in some other regions, where there is suffi- 

 cient spring water during the wole year, the ,sawahs" are 

 also used for cultivating a kind of fish, which requires only 

 2 to 3 months to be fit for food. 



9. The production amounts on an average to 25 

 or 30 picols (62 l k K os ) dry n padi" per baoe of 1500 square 

 metres (V/z H.A.), yielding, after being husked, 15 picols 

 rice. The total production of the isle of Java was in 



1895 36.702.450 



1896 33.354.200 



1897 35.194.600 



1898 35.935.550 



1899 37.500.000. 



