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do not contain 10 perches, and very many not a rood, in area; and 
within the small plot bounded by his little bank the cultivator goes 
round and round and across and back again in a very promiscuous 
frame; but the “plough” often goes over the ground behind the 
mowee again y the combined operation of these implements the 
field to a depth of 4 to 6 inches is reduce a stiff mud, the water 
remaining mostly in the upper portion; the weeds, especially the 
reeping grasses, having been thoroughly picked out and laid mostly 
a seed-bed) with a stick ; it gets a firm hold on the * pan," the surface 
of the undisturbed soil. The seed-bed is usually in the village or near 
the cultivator’s hut, 7.e., in unflooded land, where rice for dibbling is 
raised in a dense mass on a very small plot; and if not dibbled out 
exactly at the right age soon gets very yellow. The Rowa rice requires 
nothing more done to it till the day it is harvested; where the land is 
terraced, and to a less extent in the apparently dead flat of Bengal, the 
water requires a little watching and regulation. But no wee ing is 
required; the Rowa has a fine start of the weeds; there should be no 
creeping grasses left; a great multitude of annual weeds of ma y 
species grow iu the Rowa fields, but they are mostly low, and they exert 
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