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CHAPTER which is somewhat more than a quart. It is then beaten Ig a mot- 
tar, by which process halls of it are formed. Of these from four 
May 20, &c. to sixteen Seers are put into an earthen pot, with an equal quantity 
of boiling water, and boiled for five' hours ; during which, care 
must be taken, by frequent stirring, to prevent the decoction from 
burning. The oil now floats on the surface, and is decanted oil 
into another pot, in which it is boiled by itself for a quarter of an 
hour. It is then hi for u e, and by the last boiling is prevented 
from becoming rancid. After the oil has been poured from the 
seed, the pot is filled up with water, which is again boiled, and 
next day the decoction is given to the Buffaloes, by which their 
milk is said to be remarkably increased. The foiled seed is mixed 
with cow-dung, and formed into cakes for feweL The dry stems of 
the plant are also used for the fire. The oil is that which we call 
Castor-oil. and at Seringapatam is commonly used for the lamp. It 
is taken internally as a purgative; and the Sudras , and lower casts, 
frequently anoint their heads with it, when they labour under any 
complaint which they attribute to heat in the system. It is culti- 
vated on the two best qualities of land, and on the better kinds of 
Marulu. When the same piece of ground is reserved always tor 
the cultivation of plant, the succeeding crops are better than 
the first; when cultivated alternately with Ragfa it seems neither 
to improve nor injure the soil for that grain. 
Huts'’ FJlu f or the foolish-oil-plant, is a species hitherto unde- 
scribed by botanists. It is the Ram Tila of the Mussulmans. Near 
Seringapatam it is most commonly sown after .Jola, as a second crop. , 
When that has been reaped, plough four times in the course of 
eight days. Toward the end of Srko&ti^ or about the middle of 
August, after a good rain, sow broad- oath and plough hi the seed. 
It requires neither manure nor weeding, and, ripens m three months. 
It is cut near the root, and stacked for eight days. r i hen, having 
been for two or three days exposed to the sun, the seed us beaten 
out with a stick, and separated from fragments ot the plant by a 
Huts Ell Ur 
or Ram 1 'ila. 
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