108 MODE OF FALLOWING. 



cane is said to be finer and better for making sugar, 

 than that of any of the other sorts. I have this year 

 sent a supply of cane to Mr. Wilkinson, at Sehore, 

 and the Officer commanding at Asseergurh. Boor- 

 hanpore sugar-cane grows in the richest soil. 



13th. The cotton seed sent by Mr. Bell to Cap- 

 tain Sleeman, grew pretty well ; but the gardener, I 

 regret to say, destroyed the seed. The Otaheitian 

 cane promises to supersede all others. I sent some 

 Amrowty cotton seed, and wheat of a peculiarly 

 fine kind, (Jululia,)* to Captain Jenkins of Assam ; 

 but I know not how it succeeded. 



14th. Fallowing is practised thus when the land 

 is worn out and exhausted, the Patels (owners) let it 

 fall out of cultivation for three up to twelve years, 

 and use it as grazing ground ; the richer the soil, the 

 longer the period it requires to recover ; poor soil 

 requires but a year's fallow, and will last but two or 

 three ; rich land last thirty or forty years. 



15th. No manure is used ; but in sugar-cane fields 



* Some Hoshungabad Wheat, (Jululia,) which was presented to the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, by Capt. Ouseley, 

 through Dr. Wallich, and reported on by a Committee, was pronounced 

 superior to any that the members had ever before seen in India. It 

 weighed full sixty pounds to the bushel. H. II. S. 



