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tliree months it ripens without farther' trouble ; it is then pulled up CHAPTER 
by the roots, and stacked for a week. It is afterwards opened to 
the sun for five or six days, and then trodden out by bullocks. May, 20, &c. 
Tlie grain intended for seed- must be dried in the sun, and pre- 
served in a Mudy . The common way of preparing Car lay for food 
is by parching it. The straw is used for camels only, and is their 
favourite food,, 
cultivated in gardens ; and the Doda, or great Handily that is cul- 
tivated in the fields, and tlie plant of which X am now to give an , 
account. In the spring, plough five times before the 15th of Vai- 
sdkha, or the 8th of May. With the first good rain that happens 
afterwards, draw furrows all over the field at a cubit’s distance: 
and, having put the seeds into these at a similar distance, cover 
them by drawing furrows close to the termer. When the plants 
are eight inches high, hoe the intervals by drawing the Cunt ay first 
longitudinally, and then transversely. When the plants are a cubit 
and a half high, give the intervals a double ploughing. Tlie plant 
requires no manure, and in eight months begins to produce ripe 
fruit. A bunch is known to be ripe by one two of the capsules 
bursting ; and then all those which are r pe a.e collected by break- 
ing them off with the hand. They are afterwards put into a heap, 
or large basket : and the bunches, as they ripen, are collected once 
a week, till the commencement of the next rainy season, when the 
plant dies. Once in three weeks or a month, when the heap col- 
lected is sufficiently large, the capsules are for three or four days 
spread out to the sun, and* then beaten with a stick to make them 
burst. The seed is then picked out from the husks, and either 
marie by the family into oil for domestic use, or sold to the oil- 
makers. 
The following is the process for making castor-oil, which is used Castor-oil . 
■by the farmers ; the seed is parched in pots containing about a Seer, 
