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small, but jagged at the stern. The leaves are (K.) 



considered all equally o:ood for feeding; the worm, i^eportfrom 



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The mulberry-tree is not cut down for five ofAkraFarm. 

 years ; it is then allowed to grow for five years 

 more, when it is rooted out. 



Extract Letter from C. C. Hyde^ Esq. Resident 

 at Bauleah, 30th June 1833. 



In the Bauleah aurungs the mulberry cultivation Report from 

 is entirely accomplished from cuttings of five or at Bauleah. 

 six inches in length, and in the course of five or 

 six months after plantation, they become suffi- 

 ciently rooted in the ground to admit of the shrub 

 being cut as food for the worm. The cuttings are 

 set three or four together, with six inches space 

 between each cluster, and in rows, leaving suffi- 

 cient width between the rows to admit of the 

 ground being turned up by the khodalee and the 

 small plough used in Bengal. 



The mulberry-fields are never irrigated ; but if 

 the weather be favourable with a seasonable supply 

 of rain, five or six crops may be obtained through- 

 out the year, but never fewer than four, unless the 

 season should be unusually droughty. If the mul- 

 berry-fields be originally planted in good land_, 

 well attended and kept well weeded, the plant will 

 last ten or fifteen years : in that case, it is neces- 

 sary to supply fresh earth annually as manure, 



after 



