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sow broad-cast; or, if none happen, steep the seed for three hours CHAPTER 
in water. Plough in the seed. It has no manure, and in three 
months ripens without farther trouble. Cut it down early in the July s, &c, 
morning, stack it for one day, and then dry it five days in the sun. 
Tread it out, and clean it with the fan. It preserves best in a store- 
house, but does not keep longer than one year. The forage is here 
reckoned inferior to Ragy straw. The seed for an acre is l T Vwo 
peck. The produce in a good crop is fifteen fold, or 4 bushels and 
jr peck an acre ; and in a middling one ten fold, or 2 bushels and 
3 pecks. 
For the grain called Harica , at the commencement of the rains Harica, or 
plough three times in the course of a few days. As soon as the \rumcntaceum 
heavy rains begin, sow the seed broad-cast, and cover it by a third Roxb. MSS. 
ploughing;' It requires no manure, and here the pulse called Toe ary 
is never sown with Harica . At the end of a month weed it with the 
implement called Wuramry. It requires six months to ripen, and 
is cut near the root, stacked on the field for five or six days, and 
then dried in the sun, and trodden out. This grain is commonly 
preserved in pits, and does not keep longer than one year. It is 
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never made into flour. The straw is bad forage, and is used chiefly 
for manure. The seed required for an acre is ly—o peck. The pro- 
duce in a good crop, twenty fold, or 5 bushels 2^ pecks an acre; in 
a middling crop, fifteen fold, or 4 bushels \ peck. 
There are three kinds of the Panicum, called Sharnay , cultivated; Shamay, or 
Hari, Can, and Hal or Bily. They are never intermixed, and the 
cultivation of the first kind differs from that of the other two. For E - M - 
Hari Sharnay plough three times in the same manner as for Ragy. 
If there be any to spare, give the field dung, sow broad-cast, and 
harrow with the bullock-rake. In three months the grain ripens 
without farther trouble ; when it is cut down, stacked on the field 
for six days, and then trodden out. It keeps best in the store- 
house, and is never made into flour. Cattle eat the straw without 
injury, but it is inferior to the straw of either Ragy or Rice. For 
