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having been put up, it preserves well for two years. Paddy is some- CHAPTER 
times kept in pits, or in the straw packages called Mudys ; but 
these are inferior to the store-house. July 3, &c. 
The Vaisdka crop, though entirely raised during the dry season, Manner of 
is by far the greatest; as at its commencement the tanks are quite water"' 
full of water, and the farmers know exactly the quantity of seed 
that the water which they have will bring to maturity. Frequently, 
indeed, at the commencement of the season for cultivating the 
Kdrtika crop, they have some water remaining ; and, if the rains 
set in early, might have a double crop of rice on all their wet lands; 
but should the rains be late, all the seed and labour would be lost. 
Except, therefore, when the quantity of water in the reservoir is 
uncommonly great, the farmers, in place of a Kdrtika crop of rice, 
take one of some of the other grains which I have before men- 
tioned. 
Of these crops Jola ( Holcus sorghum ) is the greatest. There are Jolt. 
two kinds of it, the white and the red, which are sometimes kept 
separate, and sometimes sown mixed. The red is the most common. 
Immediately after cutting the Vaisdka crop of rice, plough four 
times in the course of twenty days. Wait till the first rainy day, 
and then, making furrows with the plough, drop in the seeds at five 
or six inches distance, by means of the instrument named Sudiky 
(Figure 2b), which is tied to the handle of the plough. Then smooth 
the field by drawing over it a bunch of thorns. The seed having 
been sown too thick, when the plants have grown a month they 
must be thinned by a ploughing. In three months the Jola ripens, 
and requires no manure. In rich soils and favourable seasons it 
sometimes produces sixty fold ; but thirty are reckoned a good 
crop, and twenty-five a middling one. In rich soils the Jola is 
sometimes followed by Carlay , in place of & ’Vaisdka crop of rice. . 
The Jola is both made into flour for puddings and cakes, and is 
boiled whole to eat with Curry, like rice. It is a good grain; but, 
at the utmost, does not keep above two years. For cattle the straw 
