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In the Hainu crop the following is the manner of conducting the CHAPTER 
sprouted-seed cultivation. The ploughing season occupies the 
month of Ashadha , or from the 23d of June till the 22d of July. May 20, &c. 
During the whole of this time the field is inundated, and is ploughed s P routed 
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four times ; while, at each ploughing, it is turned over twice in two 
different directions, which cross each other at right angles. This 
I shall call a double ploughing. About the 1st of Srdvana (22d July), 
the field is manured, immediately gets a fifth ploughing, and the 
mud is smoothed by the labourers’ feet. All the water, except one 
inch in depth, must then be let off, and the prepared seed must be 
sown broad-cast. As it sinks in the mud, it requires no labour to 
cover it. For the first twenty-four days, the field must once every 
other day have some water, and must afterwards, until ripe, be 
kept constantly inundated. The weedings are on the 25th, 35th, 
and 50th days. In order to prepare the seed, it must be put into a 
pot, and kept for three days covered with water. It is then mixed 
with an equal quantity of rotten cow-dung, and laid in a heap, in 
some part of the house, entirely sheltered from the wind. The 
heap is well covered with straw and mats : and at the end of three 
days, the seed, having shot out sprouts about an inch in length, is 
found fit for sowing. This manner of cultivation is much more 
troublesome than that called dry - seed : and the produce from the 
same extent of ground is in both nearly equal ; but the sprouted- 
seed cultivation gives time for a preceding crop of pulse on the 
same field, and saves a quarter of the seed. 
Two distinctions are made in the manner of cultivating tram- Transplanted 
planted rice: the one called Barra' agy, or dry -plant s ; and the rice ‘ 
other called Nir'agy, or wet-plants. For both kinds low land is 
required. 
The manner of raising the Barra' agy , or dry seedlings , for the Dry seed?- 
Hainu ci op, is as follows : Labour the ground at the same season, 
and in the same manner, as for the dry-seed crop. On the first of 
lyaishtha , nr 24th of May, give the manure, sow the seed very 
