MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
£85 
be loosened with the point of a sharp stick. For fifteen days more CHAPTER 
the watering must be continued ; when the whole field should be 
hoed, and levelled with the Col Kudall (Plate II. fig- 3.). Four days 
afterwards, between every second row of sugar-cane a trench is 
dug, and into this the water flows from the channels. Thus in the 
progress of its cultivation each bed assumes two forms, as exem- 
plified in the annexed sketches (Figures 31, 32). When there is 
no rain, the field requires to be watered once in the fifteen days. 
When four or five months old, the canes are tied up in bundles ; 
and, when they are a cubit and a half high, this is repeated. In 
eleven months they are ripe, and a month and a half are allowed for 
the crop season. The soil here used for sugar-cane is the rich, 
black soil called Eray ; and after sugar it requires one or two years 
rest before it gives a good crop of rice. The sugar-cane is all made 
into Jagory ; 74 Seers measure, or nearly 18 ale gallons of juice, are 
said to produce 50 Cucha Seers weight (about 2,6- lb. avoirdupois) 
of the Jagory. 
Ragy, Huruli, Harica , Shamay , Huts'’- El lu, Harulu , Cambu , Hes- Things culti- 
saru, Udu , WuW Ellu, Rarugu, Navonay , Sash way, tobacco, and Goni ^ a | edon dl T“ 
are the articles cultivated on dry field ; those of which much is cul- 
tivated being placed first, and those of which little is cultivated 
being placed last in proportion. 
The farmers do not separate the Ragy with crooked spikes, from R agy , or 
that which has straight ones ; and they consider the blackness in- c 'J nosllrus 
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cident to some kinds of this gram as owing to its getting wet when 
it is thrashing. In other places, black Ragy is considered as a dis- 
tinct variety. The ground is prepared here in the same manner as 
at Seringapatam ; but the seed is sown by means of a kind of rude 
drill-plough, called Curigy (Figures 26, 27, 28, 29), and made en- 
1 5 rely of wood and bamboos. Behind the Curigy is tied the imple- 
ment called Sudiky , into which is put the seed of the Avaray or 
Towary ; without one of which pulses Ragy is never cultivated. By 
this method, for every twelve drills of Ragy there is one drill of 
