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A JOimiWX FROM MADRAS THROUGH, 
CHAPTER 
vi. 
.! uty 25, &G. 
Manner of 
preparing the 
see<L 
Cultivation 
for the KSr 
i'lku crop.' 
Cultivation 
for the Vai~ 
■fi-aivifi’ :rop« 
Hie only manner of cultivating rice, that is m. use Imre, is the 
Jrivy c, sp'routed-seed ; the foamier of preparing which h as fori 
lows. Hie ears must he cut -riri the grain beat out. immediately, 
ami then Tried In the sou three or four days. It must be preserved 
nr si raw or in jars. When wanted for sowing, it must be exposed 
in rim uni for a day, and soaked m water a, 11 die following night 
It is then put upon a layer of the leaves of the .P eeacfck or Asdepias 
girantsa, wr of the Harulu . or llicinus Palma Christ}, mixed with 
sheeps dung, and is surrounded by stones, so an to keep it together. 
It is then covered v f.h Bandar u leaves (Dodoma \lscosa Wtlld :) t 
and pressed tow n with a storm. Next morning the upper leaves are 
removed, and a pot of water is thrown on the seed, which must.be 
turned with the hand and ok covered again with the, kavr and 
stone, Daily, fog three oi four rimes, this operation must be re- 
peated, ami then the sprouts from the seed will he almost an inch 
long. 
For the Kart Bed crop, plough seven times in the course of thirty 
days. 8 he ground all the while being inundated. In the next. place 
manure the ground with leaves, and tread them into the mud. 
Them let off the wafer, and sow the seed broad-cast, covering it 
vritv a little dungy On. the 4th day cover the ground with water, 
ami immediately afterwards let it run off. Repeat this daily, till 
the eighth time, after which the- lied'! must be kept constantly in- 
undated to the depth of. ore inch for ten days, and four inches for 
the remainder, fhe weeding* are at the end -»f the 6th, 10th, and 
>2th weeks from sowing. Toe season fo> ploughing continues all 
the months of Jyaisktha and APutdha, which this year was from the 
« 4th .of May to the grid of July. 
For the Vauakha crop the same process is followed ; but the 
ploughing season §» from the loth of Aswaja till the last of M'drga- 
■I ‘BJ 
yiriha .; widely this year., vm be from the fori of October till the loth 
of December. By this time the whole seed must be sown; and the 
neater it is done to it, the better. 
