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weeds, the seed is sown in Jeyse Assar (June), after a fall of rain, 

 and the ground must upon this be ploughed and harrowed. When 

 the plant has grown about nine inches from the ground, it must be 

 weeded. It must again be weeded when the plant is a foot and a 

 half, or two feet high. The Sunn being ready, which happens in 

 Bhaddar Asseen (September), is cut down, and not pulled up by 

 the roots, because from growing in the rainy season the stalks are 

 much larger and stronger. Some cut it in flower, some in seed. 

 The Sunn being cut is left three or four days in the field, during 

 which time the greater part of the leaves drop off. The last men- 

 tioned Sunn, which is cut in September, is both finer and stronger 

 than the other. 



Commeecolly. — There are two kinds of Sunn, which are 

 cultivated at different seasons of, the year, though they are nearly 

 similar in quality ; one being sown in June, the other in October. 

 That sown in June is generally cut about August, and the other 

 about April. The plant intended for seed is left standing fifteen or 

 twenty days longer, when it is cut, and, after being thoroughly 

 dried, the seed is taken from it by threshing. 



Hurriaul. — In the month of ^January the ground is plough- 

 ed and harrowed : in February it is again ploughed. In April, 

 after the first shower of^ rain falls, it is a third time ploughed and 

 well harrowed, to clear it from weeds, and the following day the 

 seed is sown by the hand (in the same manner as the English far- 

 mers do wheat, &c.) and then again well harrowed. In a few 



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