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and once across the field. Next week weed with the Ujary. It CHAPTER 
ripens in six months ; and, having been cut down near the root, 
is stacked for six days. It is then trodden out by cattle. The May 20, &x. 
seed reserved for sowing must be well dried in the sun. The re- 
mainder 'is preserved in the Canqja , but does not keep long. It is 
both boiled like rice, and made into flour for dressing as Sangutty , 
or pudding. The straw is eaten by every kind of cattle ; but, of 
all the fodders used here, this is reckoned the worst. 
Namnay is the Panicum Italicum of Linnaeus, the Bagera of the Navonay, m 
Bengalese, Gangony of the Decany Mussulmans, Carolu of the Telingas , ?£***”* lta ~ 
and Tenay of the Tclmul language. There are two varieties of it . 
cultivated ; the one called Ghidu, or short ; and the other Jotu y 
or long, and Doda , or great. Unless a quantity of dung can be 
spared, it is never sown on the two worst soils. On the two best 
soils it requires no manure, and does not injure the succeeding 
crop of Ragy. In the spring, plough six times. When the heavy 
rains commence, sow, and plough in the seed. It requires neither 
weeding nor hoeing, and ripens in three months. Cut it close to 
the ground, and stack it for eight days ; then spread it to the sun 
for a day, and on the next tread out the grain with oxen. The 
seed for Sowing must be well dried in the sun, and preserved in 
a Mudy. The remainder is kept in the Canqja. It is made into 
flour for Sangutty, or pudding, and is also frequently boiled whole, 
like rice ; for which, according to my taste, it is the best succe- 
daneum that the country affords. The straw is used for fodder, 
but is not good. The Jotu Namnay is sometimes put in drills with 
Ragy , in place of the Avaray or Tovary. 
Huruli is much cultivated. It is the Dolichos biflorus of Linnaeus, Huruli, or 
the Horse gram of the Madras English, the Cultie of the Decany bl ~ 
Mussulmans, and the Coin of the Tamul language. There are two 
varieties ; the red, and the black ; but here the two are always 
sown intermixed. In the last half of Sravana, from the 5th to the 
20th August, plough three times. Sow broad-cast, with the first 
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