MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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CHAPTER 
II. 
May 20, &c. 
Caru crop 
three seasons. 
before the ploughing for the rice commences. The produce of the 
transplanted crop is nearly equal to that of the dry seed cultivation; 
and on a good soil, properly cultivated, twenty times the seed sown 
is an average crop. 
The Caru crops, according to the time of sowing, are divided into 
three kinds. When the farm is properly stocked, the seed is sown 
at the most favourable season, and the crop is then called the Cumba 
Caru; but if there be a want of hands, or cattle, part of the seed 
is sown earlier, and part later than the proper season; and then it 
produces from 30 to 50 per cent, less than the full crop. When 
sown too early, the crop is called Tula Caru; when too late, it is 
called Maysha Caru , The produce of the Hainu and Cumba Caru 
crops is nearly the same. 
No Tula Caru dry seed is ever sown. The ploughing season for Dry seed 
the Cumba Caru dry seed begins in Bhadrapada , or 21st Auglist, and 
the seed is sown about the end of Mdrgasirsha , or 16th December. 
In the Maysha Caru dry seed , the ploughing commences on the 1st 
of Chaitra , or 26th of March, and the seed is sown at the feast of 
Chaitra Purnama, or 9th of April. 
The Tula Caru sprouted seed is sown on the 1st Kdrtika , 19th Oc- 
tober, the ploughing having commenced with the feast Navaratri , 
19th September. The Cumba Caru sprouted seed is sown about 
the 16th of Pushy a, or 1st of January. The ploughing season oc- 
cupies a month. The ploughing for the Maysha Caru sprouted 
seed commences about the 15th of Chaitra. The seed is sown about 
the 16th of Vaisdkha , or 9th of May. 
The Cumba Caru transplanted rice is cultivated only as watered 
seedlings . The ground for the seedlings begins to he ploughed in the 
end of Kdrtika, (16th November), and the seed is sown on the 
15th Pushya , or 30th December, The fields, on which this crop is 
ripened, are begun to be ploughed in the middle of Mdrgasirsha , 
(1st December). The transplanting takes place about the 15th of 
Mdgha , or 29th of January. The Tula Caru transplanted 7'ice also is 
V01. I. N 
Sprouted 
seed. 
Transplant- 
ed. 
