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CHAPTER thick, and cover it with the plough. If no rain fall before the 8th 
day, then water the field, and again on the 22d ; but, if there are 
May 20 , &c. any showers, these waterings are unnecessary. From the 45th till 
the 60th day, the plants continue fit to be removed. In order to be 
able to raise them for transplanting, the field must be inundated for 
five days, before they are plucked. 
The ground on which the clry -seedlings are to be ripened, is 
ploughed four times in the course of eight weeks, commencing 
about the 15th of Iyaishtha, or 7th of June ; but must, all the 
while, be inundated. The manure is give# before the 4tli plough” 
mg. After this, the mud having been smoothed by the feet, the 
seedlings are transplanted into it, and from three to five plants are 
stuck together, into the mud, at about a span distance from the 
other little branches. The water is then let off for a day: after- 
wards, the field, till the grain is ripe, is kept constantly inundated. 
The weedings are performed on the 20th, 35th, and 45th days after 
transplanting. 
Watered seed- The manner of raising the Nir-agy, or wet-seedlings, for the trans- 
lin S s ‘ planted crop m the Hainu season, is as follows : In the month 
Phalguna (14th February to 14th March) plough the ground three 
times while it is dry. On the 1st of Iyaishtha , or 24th of May, in- 
undate the field ; and in the course of fifteen days plough it four 
times. After the 4th ploughing smooth the mud with the feet, 
sow the seed very thick, and sprinkle dung over it : then let off 
the water. On the 3d, 6th, and 9th days, water again ; but the 
water must be let off, and not allowed to stagnate on the field. 
After the 12th day, inundate until the seedlings be fit for trans- 
plantation, which will be on the 30th day from sowing. 
The cultivation of the field into which the seedlings are trans- 
planted, is exactly the same as that for the dry- seedlings. 
The plot on which the seedlings are raised produces no crop of 
pulse; but various kinds of these grains are sown on the fields that 
are to ripen the transplanted crop, and are cut down immediately 
