IOC CROPS OF THE VALLEY. 



reached me. I shall however send men again this 

 rains, as I think great improvements might be made 

 by mixing the breed. I have some hundred head 

 of cattle, cows and buffaloes, now in an experimen- 

 tal farm, and I think that there is every chance of 

 their improving in this fine grazing country. 



7th and 8th. Little irrigation is employed, the 

 only fields watered, are sugar-cane, and Malies, or 

 Kachee's land, (vegetable growers). The soil cracks 

 too much to admit of the water running ; you may 

 force a bamboo or two tied together, down some of 

 the cracks from 15 to 20 feet and more ; they are 

 fully a span wide. 



9th. Wheat crops are sown in October and No- 

 vember, and cut in March and April. Gram, which is 

 sown with wheat, is cut in February or March. Rice 

 is sown in June and July, cut in October and Novem- 

 ber; and with rice are sown Cotton, Kadoo, Koot- 

 kee, the pulses Oorud and Moong, Jowar,* Bujra,f 

 Tillee}: of one kind, &c. along with wheat, gram, 

 sugar-cane, Ulsee or Teesa,$ Mussoor, and Tewra. 



Aal is sown in June and July, and dug the third 



* Andropogon Sorghum. 



t Panicum (Penicillaria) spicatum. 



I (Sesatrium?) 



Sinum Usitatissimum. H. H. S. 



