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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER Canajas , or store-houses, but cannot be preserved long. It is made 
IL into flour for cakes, and for Sangutty, or pudding. If sown on the 
May 20, &c. two good soils, it requires no dung ; but on the two bad soils 
manure is absolutely necessary. Repeated crops of this grain do 
not exhaust the ground, and Ragy thrives after it. 
Shamay, or Shamay is the Panicum miliare of Lamarck, the Sama and Sawmun 
liare CUm ”**" °f the Mussulmans, the Chama of the Telinga , and the Shamay of 
the Tamul language. It is never sown on the Eray or black clay, 
and rarely on the Cabbay, or red soil ; the two worst qualities of 
land being considered as sufficiently^ood for such a crop. In the 
spring the field is ploughed five times. At the commencement of 
the heavy rains it is sown broad-cast, and the seed is covered by a 
ploughing. Even in the worst soil, there is no absolute necessity 
for dung ; but when any can be spared, the crop will doubtless he 
benefited by manure. It ripens without further care in three 
months, is cut close to the ground, and gathered into stacks. Five 
or six days afterwards it is spread on a thrashing-floor, and the N , 
grain is trampled out by oxen. That intended for sowing is dried 
in the sun, and tied up in straw Mudies. The remainder is preserved 
in Canajas. ' It is sometimes boiled whole, like rice ; at others, 
©•round into flour for cakes. All kinds of cattle eat the straw, which 
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is also esteemed the best for stuffing pack-saddles. 
Hanca , or The Harica is the Paspalum frumentacum of Dr. Roxburgh, the 
Paspalum Varagu of the Tamul , the Harica of the Telinga, , and the Cadoro of 
frumentacum. ° 
, the Decany Mussulman language. As it is found to injure the suc- 
ceeding crop of Ragy , it is never cultivated on the best soil, and 
rarely on that of the second quality. It is commonly followed by a 
crop of horse gram , and is seldom allowed any manure. In the 
spring plough five times. The dung, if any be given, must be 
put on before the last ploughing. When the heavy rains com- 
mence, sow broad-cast, and plough in the seed : next day form 
drills of Tovary m the same manner as with Ragy. When the 
sprouts are a span high, hoe with the Cuntay , once longitudinally 
