CHAPTER 
Jolv 14, 
Turmeric 
and Maize. 
A JOURNEY PROM MANE AS THROUGH 
coriander. They exchange their other* ■ articled for provisions. 
They keep akcow, 'which feeds in the wastes > and gives, them milk 
and m maim 'According aa the water in the wells is' far from, or 
wear the surface, their ground rent is from one half more, to three 
times as; much as it would. pay if it were cultivated for 'dry grams, 
IT w-J « aw acre wrought by two brothers, ami having the water at 
fourteen Get from the surface, pays annually twenty Fanams^or 
f $s. Aiio when cultivated for dry grains, this field paid 10 Fanams a 
year, or 6s, igA The extent of garden ground is estimated by the. 
quantity wf Amo that it. would Srw i and in fact, owing to a want 
of garde jers, rise greater part of -what was formerly garden ground 
is now cultivated with that grain. 
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in >;hese gardens considerable quantities of wheat and trans- 
planted Tiagy are raised. The liay;u supports the family, and the 
straw feeds their cow. The crop of it is more productive, than, 
that cultivated on the adds ; one third of an acre producing two 
Can dams] which is at the rate of 33 T y bushels an acre. 
As a farther specimen of the manner in voieh the natives ms- 
cage teem gardens, I shall gr; e an account of the cultivation of 
turmeric, the most valuable ‘article raised by the people of this 
place. 
About the beginning of May the field is dug up, with the hoe 
railed Col Kudaii , vc the depth of nine inches, or, if the gardener 
be industrious, to double that depth. Dung is then spread on the 
garden, and boed-in The plot is then formed into squares-, as 
before described ; an s in these, at the mutual distance of five or 
Ex inches, ere planted small cuttings of the turmeric root. Be- 
tween every slip of turmeric is planum a seed oi make* Once, m 
three days, the squares are watered., At the end of the first* mouta 
the creeds are removed with a very small hoe, and a httif dung is 
gfvhn. In three months, the make h ripe ; but in this climate it. 
docs not c^mc to much perfection. Each ••tem, in common, gives, 
only one head, mid very rarely more than twee. It cm hardly he 
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