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MYSORE, CANARY, AND MALABAR. 
only cane cultivated here is the Restali. The preparation of the CHAPTER 
ground occupies about three months previous to the end of Phal- 
guna , which happened this year on the 14th of March. The steps June 8. 
taken in this preparation are as follow. Water the field. Allow it 
three days to dry, then plough it six times, and break the clods with 
the Col Kuddli. Manure with leaves, and plough again ; manure 
with dung, and plough three times. The field, having been thus pre- 
pared, is divided into beds, as at Sermgapatam (p. 9b). Four holes, 
about a cubit’s distance from each other, are formed in the breadth 
of each bed. Two cuttings of three joints each, are put in each 
hole, and covered first with an inch of earth, and then with five 
inches of dung. Water is given to each hole, and every morning 
for fifteen days this is repeated. The holes are then dug up with a 
sharp stick, and more dung is given. For fifteen days more the 
watering must be again repeated. The whole field must then be 
hoed with the Yella Kuddli , and in each bed a winding channel 
must be formed, passing through between the rows of holes, as in 
the explanatory sketch (Fig. 7). When there is no rain, these 
channels must once a week be filled with water. At the end of a 
month the ground must be again hoed, and the channels formed 
afresh. Between the 24th of May and the 22d of June, the canes 
become a cubit high. The plants of each hole must then be tied 
together with a binding of leaves. A third hoeing is now given, 
and the earth heaped up round the roots of the cane. The water- 
ings once a week must be continued. When the plants have grown 
another cubit, which will be about the beginning of September, 
they must be tied a second time; and again a third time about the 
beginning of November, the watering once a week having been 
regularly continued. About the end of December, the works are 
repaired ; in the tenth month from planting the crop commences, 
and must be finished in the eleventh. The cane is succeeded by 
Sesamum , that by rice, and that again by sugar. The Sesamum and 
rice occupy one year, and the sugar-cane another, alternately. The 
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