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here are stimulants. They are poor, and have not a sufficiency 

 of wholesome food ; here is security for the land being 

 cultivated by some one. 



There are certain privileges attached to each village, as for 

 example, the collection of honey throughout all the jungle 

 attached to it ; one-half of the game killed ; one out of every 

 two tusks " bao-o-ed" in these : and the right of fishing the 

 tank. All these rights give rise to constant squabbles. 



The chief varieties of paddy cultivated in the District are ; 



Dik-vi ) • . . n 



• m virgin soil. 



Ilanhdliyan 



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Mahd-vi ; for t-dwdlu, as it does not die though overflowed. 



for paddy 



El-vi (sudu fm&kalu 11 white" and u black,") 

 Kuru-vi, 



HinatL j fields. 



Murunga-vi. J 



These vary in colour, size and taste. Their most important 

 distinction, however, refers to the length of time which they 

 require for attaining maturity ; some take three, some four, some 

 six months. 



There are two crops annually ; that sown in December and 

 reaped in March or April, gives the Yala-mosama in August 

 and September. Occasionally, when the weather is favourable, 

 and the preceding harvest has been lost, a crop is taken between 

 the intervals, and is simply called " a between two years crop" 

 d ewurudda atare mosama. 



The return from paddy fields according to the reports of 

 the headmen, varies from four to ten-fold ; but there can be no 

 doubt that the crop is frequently much heavier than this would 

 induce one to suppose. 



Another method of cultivating paddy is called tawdlii ; in 

 this case the margins of the tanks themselves are cultivated, 

 and the water for irrigation is raised by means of scoops, such 

 as are in nse at salt pans. This system gives larger returns 



