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muddy beds, the labourer casts the cuttings singly down before hiai 

 lengthways, as he walks along the trench, allowing a space of but 

 two or three fingers breadth to intervene between each catting, and 

 as he progresses, he presses the cutting into the soft bed, with his 

 foot : the field is now daily flooded until the shoots have risen about 

 six inches above the soil, when water is restricted to every fourth or 

 fifth day which must be continued until the rains set in and after 

 they have ceased or the cane be ripe to cut, which takes place just 

 immediately prior to its coming into flower, a period of about twelve 

 months from its being first planted. The crop has ;d be weeded 

 about four or five times, and in the rains when ail vegetation gets 

 rank two or three plants are bound together by their lower leaves 

 for support to each other in high winds. There are two varieties 

 of cane grown, the red and white sorts. The former is called 

 *'Domeah," the latter Kurree. The domeah is the kind generally 

 seen : it requires more manure than the other variety, yields a richer 

 and more abundant extract, and from its drier nature, is better adapt- 

 ed to stand the climate found upon the high lands. They are how- 

 ever both generally to be found growing together in the same planta- 

 tion, on account of the red kind so:ne times spoiling by excessive 

 cold, in the early part of the year, which does not, in the same de- 

 gree, affect the white variety. 



Upon an average, a beegah of good sugar cane land yields from 

 four to seven puUahs of rub, or pot extract. Further consideration 

 of thia subject will be deferred till we come to treat upon the manu- 

 factures of the Circar. 



Tobacco -^'^ ^^^^ varieties are raised : it is more culti- 



vated ia Byzapoor and Phoclmurree than elsewhere, 

 preferring a rich reddish brown soil in these localities : at c-her 

 places it is seen on the outskirts of villages, providing the Forica" 

 for the inhabitants. The land is little dressed for this crop, the sur- 

 face soil only being once moved by the bukkur, previously to the 

 young plants being planted : it requires one weedina: and. as it is com- 

 ing into flower, the tops of the plant are nipped off. which causes the 

 leaf to be cf better quality : a species of cricket is ap: to destroy the 

 lender plants, and the growing crop is much injured by a pernieioua 

 parasite infesting its roots called the Orobanche Indica. 



There are 2.122 btegahs 16 pds. under cultivation producing 561 



