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duces plants which are cut in Chyte (March). On cutting the 

 plants, the tops are separated and thrown away. 



Tipperah. — Previously to the sowing of the seed, which is 

 done in Cautic (October), the ground is ploughed three or four 

 times, and harrowed. 



After the seed comes up, no further trouble is taken. 



In five or six months after sowing the seed, or in Chyte and 

 Bysaak (March and April), the plants are cut down, and made up 

 into small bundles. 



Sylhet. — The ground is ploughed twice, and the seed sown 

 in Cautic (October). After the appearance of the plants, no further 

 attention to them is necessary. In Faugun or Chyte (February or 

 March) about four months after the sowing of the seed, the plants 

 are cut down and made up into bundles. 



Jungypore. — The ground designed for Ghore-Sunn is ploughed 

 three or four times, and the clods of earth are broken and pulverised 

 by a kind of harrow. The lands are ploughed twice in the dry 

 season, in April or May. When the rains set in, they are again 

 ploughed, and the seed sown when the land is as wet as the situation 

 will admit. 



The plants appear four or five days after the seed is sown> and, 

 rising very quickly, require no weeding, as the plant soon overtops 

 and destroys grass or weeds, by depriving them of nourishment : 

 and as the seed is sown on the commencement of the rains, no water- 

 ing is requisite, nor any thing further to be done by the proprietor, 



until 



