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SETAHIA ITALICA. 



Soil and Manuring. g, I'ule grown on the good land of the village, and often on the highly manured fields 



Outturn. round the village site. As a general rule it is followed by a spring crop. Its outturn 



is not so large as that of sawan, averaging, v^hen grown close, from 3| to 5 maunds per 

 acre. Great loss is sufiered by the depredations of birds, who are particularly fond of the 

 grain, and there is a common saying, " Kakun kheti, baj dharna," i.e., (the cultivation of 

 kakun is like keeping a hawk). The straw is no more nutritious as cattle fodder than 

 rice straw, and is not therefore set much store by. 



Explanation of Plate XXV. 



1. Cluster of spikelets. I 2. Upper part of plant with inflorescence, (reduced 



' to s nat. size.) 



Drawn from a living specimen gathered near Mussoorie, 



