IN DiKAJPUft. 7 



bourer Would 'scarcely pick one of them up if he saw 

 it lie in the road. 



Rice is the staple production of the district. Four 

 kinds (including several varieties) are principally cul- 

 tivated ; viz. the Bhadui, so called from its ripening 

 in the month Bhadar, the Hemat so denominated 

 from its ripening in the cold season, the Buna, and 

 Bbhara. 



The first of these is chiefly, though not exclusive- 

 ly, cultivated on the lower, and loamy lands; on 

 these soils it is constantly sown by broad cast, in 

 Match, April or May, and the quantity sown depends 

 upon the quantity of rain which falls in those months. 

 The season of cultivation is sometimes extended near 

 a month longer tlian it would otherwise be, by trans- 

 planting the rice, while young, into the fields, or 

 the more elevated lands. When it is sown early 

 on the higher lands, a second crop is sometimes pro- 

 duced upon the same spot; but, thatwhichissown late 

 in the season, ripening proportionably late, so much 

 interferes with the planting of the Hemat rice, that 

 the latter crop is often scarcely worth the gatliering. 



This rice, when sown on the lower and loamy soils, 

 requires weeding. A large quantity of weeds, par- 

 ticularly />rt«/cwwi ciliare, often springs up among it : 

 these weeds, if not extirpated, infallibly ruin the 

 Crop. It is also necessary to open the soil, after a 

 heavy shower, by drawing a large drag over it ; but 

 no other attention is requisite, till the harvest, when 

 it is cut and housed in the usual way. 



The Hemat rice is usually cultivated on the higher 

 and strong lands, a stitf soil being better calculated to 



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