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Kudali ; and round every cluster of young canes there must be CHAPTER 
formed by the hand a small cavity, into which a little dung is to IL 
be put. In the third month the canes must be watered every other May 20, &c. 
day. At the end of the third month, if the canes have grown with 
luxuriance, the field must be dug over again with the Yella Kudali ; 
but, if they are rather stunted, the watering must be continued all 
the fourth month, before they get the third weeding. At this time, 
the efarth, at the roots of the cane, is heaped up into ridges crossing 
the beds at right angles to the trenches. Afterwards, no water is 
given immediately to the plants, but for three days the trenches 
must be kept full. It is then let out for a week. If there be rain, 
there is no occasion for more watering ; but, if it be dry weather, 
the trenches, for a month, must be filled with water one day in the 
iveek. Then the weeding with the Yella Kudali must be repeated, 
and the earth must be smoothed with the hand, and placed care- 
fully round the canes. The young shoots from each hole will be 
now ten or twelve in number; those which are sickly must be cut 
off; and the healthy, which are about a cubit long, must be tied 
up with a leaf of the plant into bundles of two or three, in order 
to prevent them from spreading too much. Should there be no 
rain, the trenches must, once in fifteen days, be filled with water, 
till the canes, having grown higher, again require to be tied toge- 
ther. In a month after the first tying, they ought to be two cubits 
high. When the plants are eight months old, they will have grown 
another cubit, and will require another tying. The farmer now 
begins to repair his apparatus for making Jagory : the Alay mutiny, 
or boiiing-house ; the Gana , or mill ; the Copriga , or boiler ; the 
Utsu, or mould; the Cunu, or cooler; the Goarmuny , or ladle; and 
the Chebalu , or skimmer. In the eleventh month he begins to cut 
the Bestali , and the crop must be finished within the year. The 
Puttaputti is ripe in twelve months, and two months may be allowed 
for cutting it. 
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