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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER 
V, 
July 8, &c. 
Huruli , or 
DoHchos bi- 
Jiorus t 
pulse. After the field has been sown, it is harrowed with the bul- 
lock-rake called Halimy , and then smoothed with a bunch of 
thorns, which is drawn by a bullock, and pressed down by a large 
stone. Here sheep are only used to trample the Ragy fields when 
there is a scarcity of rain. The bullock-hoe called Canty is used on 
the 15th and 18th days after sowing. On the 26th day the harrow- 
ing is repeated. On the 32 d the field is cleared from weeds with 
the implement called Wuramry (Figure 30). In four months the 
Ragy ripens, and in five the pulses. The farmers would always 
prefer thrashing it out immediately after it is reaped ; but the offi- 
cers of revenue prevent them from taking it out of the stack until 
the balances of rent are paid, which sometimes takes up two or three 
months..- On a good soil, Ragy will grow with a dunging given 
once in two years; but, if possible, it ought to have dung every 
year. After most other crops Ragy thrives ill, and the ground re- 
quires much dung to bring it again into heart. Rest, or want of 
cultivation, is also reckoned prejudicial to a Ragy field. Forty-five 
fold of Ragy , and forty fold of the accompanying pulses, is reckoned 
a great crop ; and thirty-five of Ragy with twenty of the pulses is 
a middling one. This sounds great; but the seed required for an 
acre being only 1-^Vo P eck of Ra ^' and tWo parts of a peck of 
the pulses, a great crop is only 15 bushels, 3,YoV pecks of Ragy, and 
4 bushels T Vo- peek of 1 the pulses; while a middling crop is 12 
bushels 1,-jVo peck of the former, and 2 bushels T Vo peck of the 
latter. This estimate is formed on the measurement of only one 
field. 
Huruli , or Horse-gram, is of two kinds, black and" white ; both 
are here sown intermixed. The worst qualities of soil are those com- 
monly used for this grain ; and on the same fields Shamay, Harica , 
and Huts r -Ellu, are cultivated, without one crop injuring the other, 
or without a rotation being considered as of the smallest benefit. 
For Horse- gram plough twice, in the course of a few days, any time 
in Kdrtika ( 19 th October— 16th November). Then after a shower 
