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N before ploughing, or to undertake any extra labour to pe 
a better crop in a bad season ; he would say that if the rain should n 
ast on the average time that would $ the will of Providence, ane 
over (as see below) I think there is something easier than deep ploughing 
which might be done to assist the crop when the rain stops too early, 
Manvurine Rick FrELDs. 
A second favourite proposal is that the Bengalee cultivator should be 
taught to manure is rice. It has — urged on the Lieutenant- 
The Bengalee eultivator has little manure and he applies what he has 
mainly to his cold bh a i crops. There is a considerable quantity of 
cowdung used for fuel. It might be possible to forbid by police ukase 
the burning cf cowdung i in Caleutta and its suburban sene tati 
do not think it would be remunerative to purchase extraneous manures. 
The effect of manure may be considered as similar tb Pu t of deep 
ploughing, and it must be recollected that it is quite possible to get corn 
too st The rice crops, when a full one, often suffers before harvest 
by petting laid into the mud and water when the eL is Pile up 
n November ; this is especially the case with the Am 
EXPERIMENTS WITH CAROLINA Rick. 
ird Government plan has been to introduce eter 
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foreign "prolific sorts of rice. The Carolina rice has a arge grain ; it 
does not follow that the produce per aere would be larger, far less that 
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it oai be more valuable than that of Bengalee small-grained kinds. 
Government for 20 years past has been sending round this Carolina rice 
for trial in Bengal. A ba d a is sent to each collector; the 
and the dibbling early. There was a very heavy crop, but no native 
dealer would purchase it, and it was finally „bought by a European 
merchant for export to ea ndon. Government is still (up to three years 
ago) sending round bags of experimental Carolina rice to the collectors. 
The Bengalees distinguish shades of flavour in rice; they do not like 
American or Burmese rice; they do not like large-erained coarse rice ; 
and they do not like newly harvested rice, as the say it disagrees with 
them extremely, The Rowa rice in Mymensingh, harvested in December 
is kept in raised well-thatched granaries till the following August, 
when the Calcutta traders’ large boats arrive; it reaches Calcutta just 
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aged enough for the Caleutta baboos to f 4 famine 
Government import urmese rice largely into Behar =z distributed 
rations of it to those emplo oyed on the famine relief wor But thes 
recipients largely sold their ete to traders, by whom the) Burmese rice 
was exported back to Burm 
SUGGESTIONS ror Improvine Rick CULTURE. 
I concluded my first (1868) paper on rice um saying that I did mot 
think we had much to teach the Bengalees in ‘rice growing; and this 
stasenicnt did not, I fear, conduce to the popularity “of that paper. I 
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