10 Remarks on Aguigulture 



The Bohara rice is sown in October or November 

 like the Hemat, and about January planted at the 

 bottoms of tanks, or pits, or on very low ground where 

 it can be supplied with water. It is treated in 

 every respect like the Hemat, and ripens in April or 

 May. This is an excellent sort of rice, but the quan- 

 tity cultivatcd-is necessarily small. 



The next article of cultivation is indigo, a plant 

 for which many parts of this district are improper, as 

 it will not grow on the white clay lands called Balka, 

 is sparingly produced on the black or red clays, and 

 as most of the soft and loamy parts lie so low as to be 

 subject to sudden inundations, which infallibly de- 

 stroy the crop. 



The proper season for sowing indigo is in April 

 and May. Some have sown it at the end of Septem- 

 ber or the beginning of October, and others in any 

 month from October to March. That sown in Sep- 

 tember, or October, or even in November, will fre- 

 quently produce a crop, if the land be not low and 

 damp. It is better to sow on low damp soils, in 

 December, January and February, when the season 

 wiU soon become warm enough to obviate the danger 

 arising from the soil. Some have sown a winter 

 crop with this indigo, which as it aifords the young 

 plants a shelter in the cold season, may be esteemed 

 a good method. Mustard, ripening very early, is 

 the most improper for this purpose, because it leaves 

 the indigo exposed at the very season in which it re- 

 quires shelter. The young plants^ at this season of 

 the year, are often greatly injured by the treading of 

 cattle ; and the crop is seldom so good as that which 

 is sown in the proper season. If the season be 

 favourable, and the whole crop be sown in March, 



