$77 
MYSORE, CANARY, AND MALABAR, 
MIow, Dung being a scarce article, m ph.ee of the llagy a second 
crop of Shathay is taken; but it is a had one. If the fallow has 
been long, and high bushes have grown tip, ahne burning these, the 
crop . of Huruli • .will, be great, and two or three 1 ' good crops of' 
Shamay will follow. When good' Rmgy soil has for a year or more 
been waste, and is to he brought again jo to cultivation, the first 
'crop taken ought to 'be Shamay ; for Ragy thr ves very ill on land 
that is not constantly cultivated In this case, the Shamay gives a 
great quantity of straw, but little grain. When the rams have 
failed, so that the liqgy has not here sown, or when, ,e cm, sequence 
of drought, it has died, should the. end of the season he favourable, 
a crop of Simmy is taken from the in* ids that, are usually cultivated 
with Ragy. This crop also runs to .straw, a no the following crop 
of Rtj-gy requires more dung than usual. In the coum of thirty 
days, auv time between the middle of April and middle of July, 
plough three or four times. Then after a good ram, or one which 
makes the water cun on the surface of the ground, •' at row wit h me 
V 
rake drawn by. oxen, and sow the Shamuy seed with tlie dnlf put- 
ting m with the SndSy (Fig, £6} rows of the poises called liuruU or 
. Tomry* In • four mouths, without farther trouble, . ; t ripens. 1 he 
seed for a CoLg«-hmd is 24 Seer- of the Shamay and 0 Seers of the 
pulse. In a good crop, the. Shamay will produce i. 0 Cola gas o? Shamay, 
and two of Tovary } or one of Huruli This, reduced to English 
measures, will be nearly as follows i 
Pecks, Bushels, 
£,221368 and produces £2,213684 
0,693133 - ~ 5,552736 
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July 25, &G» 
One acre sows of Shamay 
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Total 2,320501 
27 , 76,642 
The Shamay straw- is but bad fodder. 
The 'next most considerable crop is cm juiFe called .tiuruli, the l-hml or 
only kind of -which, cultivated here, l& '.the white, Except after 
Car’-Eltiij or upon new ground,, k never mcreech fire longer hoc 
Yol. 1, ’ " ' SO 
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