CO*».-^JF</ Land. 



Jifttan, Jihhat* ripen in 0 months. 



The Mahns In n- have not attempted double crop- 

 ping as on the eonliuent of India. There are no tanks 

 and it is only at a very few spot* that they 09ttM be 

 made. Mast of the Malayan Met land rice re- ji ores , 

 bog a period to reach maturity, that there woehl I - • 

 deficiency of water f>r a second crop were an attempt 

 to be made ta grow one. But the Malays are obstU 

 nate in asserting that, were water abundant, still the 

 rice sown here will not fructify after the rainy season 

 has passed. lint the jagong rice befae noticed 

 seems an exception. 



The Chinese, last year, introduced from China a 

 species of rice termed by them Pangd-so, which jg 

 short grained, of a reddish color and goes to ear in 3 

 months and ten da\s after planting, and as it isaspe* 

 cies which requires to lie flooded it promises to be an 

 acquisition, although a very light grain. 



There are considerable tracts of land bordering tir*- 

 hakkau or mangrove llats. which at present lit; waste. 

 It is understood that (here is a kind of rice cultivated 

 in Chiltagong which is not injured by brackish or 

 ualt water occasional)} reaching it : were fins also inr- 

 trod need, much bench t might accrue. 



The Malays never manure their rice fields, nor is 

 there any occasion as \et for doing- so, especially while 

 the system continues of allowing the field to lie from 

 0 to 8 months fallow every year. The people of 

 Bengal render rice capable of being* preserved for a 

 loim- time by dipping it in boiling water so as to des- 

 Tro\ lie -vrni. The Ala lays have not adopted this 

 plan and therefore heat or grind out the rice from 

 the husk just before it is to he used. The Burmese, 

 the Siamese, and it is hi iicwd ;dl (he ludo Chinese 

 governments, maintain large granaries. The object 

 is political, w ith reference to their exposure to frequent 



