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to ripen the sides ■ about 4 seers of seeds, will yield 1 seer of oil. 

 It is burnt in lamps and also used medicinally. 



Cordage. 



Surm^ Sunn — Crotolarea Juncea. — Grown alone on rich 



lands, but quickly exhausts its virtues : the time for 

 sowing, is when the land has become moistened by the first shower 

 in June, and the crop is ready to cut in October ; the plant is steeped 

 in the bed of some stream to loosen its fibres, so that they may be 

 detached from the stalk easily. There are 33 beeghas cultivated, 

 yielding 9 pullas. 



Current price 12 Rs. per pulla. cheap seasons 4 Rs., and dear 

 Rs. 15. 



Anibarree — Hibiscus Cannabinus. — Generally seen 

 cultivated in all villages, and as one of the mixed crops 

 of the season. The process of steeping and cleaning the fibre, is si- 

 milar to that required for Sunn ; its fibres are beaten and twisted into 

 ropes, for the use of wells and carts. An agreeable spinage is procur- 

 ed from its young tender green leaves, and the stalks are useful for 

 supporting the tiled roofs. 



RrBEEE, or Spring Harvest. 

 Corn. 



Corn. Wheat — Triticum Sativum. — This is the chief grain 



crop of the rubbee harvest ; the land it is sown on, 

 is a heavy loamy soil, whose texture and composition are both fitted 

 for the maturity of the plant, being moderately compact, and calcareous. 

 Wheat lands are usually kept fallow during the kureef, or it may be, an 

 early crop of moong is taken, which is no bad preparation to wheat. 

 It is grown alone, or mixed sparingly with koosumba. The variety 

 generally cultivated is the katia, and is sown in the proportion of five 

 seers to the beegha. The land having been prepared after the rains 

 by ploughing and pulverizing the soil, it is hoed to loosen the ground, 

 and clear the weeds, in order that it may tiller freely ; to secure its 

 well doing, two or three showers are required after it has formed its 

 stem, after which nothing more is needed, but the night dews to 

 bring it to perfection. It is sown in September or October,-and ri- 

 pens in January, The harvest is gathered in by reaping with the 



