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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS i'HEOUGH 
Cotton, 
K.ct:%v> c.R ground lias ocen waste, especial ty, it it has been overgrown with 
W ,X, small bushes oi the Tayngadu, or Banditry, (Ca-sxia auriculata, and 
Se ; e ■ sa sa W u the bet ter v..,. It gt )w * 
best u.'Oa ash-coloured soil, and next to that prefers a red soil, in 
vm,;n there- is much sand In Sr&cana, or from about the middle 
-o! only to the middle of August, l urn the bushes ; and either then, 
or in the course '$f the next m optic plough once. After the. next 
gr.'od. rain sow the seed broadcast, mid plough the Held across the 
form e? i Arrows. A Colaga land sows .IS Seers of B'urulL and in | 
good c r op produces twenty seeds, 
One acre ows 1, 11.06*84- pc ck, and produces 5,556*84 bushels, 
•4 he quantity of all the otl^er crops is inconsiderable, 
in a particular quality oi sod, of which the quantity is small, 
cotton and Mobu Navony are cultivated, it is a black clay, 'which 
coo tame small masses ot inn. stone. On this ground Rugy will not 
f? ron d but. on Ragy soil cotton will grow, although not well. In 
eue course of. a 'month, any time m the first quarter of the year, 
which commences about the vernal equinox, plough five times. 
Yhen, after a good rain, harrow with the rake drawn by oxen, and 
sow with the d rill, the seed of the Navony being put in the Curigy* 
and that of the cotton rr the Suuihj (see Figure 26) >. tioinharioy/ 
agaiqi It gets neither weeding nor manure. In four months the 
Navony is reaped, and the space on which it grew os ploughed. The 
cotton, in 15 days afterwards, begins to give ripe capsules.; and till 
VaMkhai or about the biicldle of the foil >w ng April, it continues 
to produce a good quantity. If the farmer be able,, he then ploughs 
op the 'whole deldf and sows it os, at first); bur. ?f he be poor, or 
la?y t he weeds the held by ;■ ploughing between else raws of .cotton,, 
ana outs if down dose by dm ground.. It Thoots up fresh branches, 
and in the second year gives a poor crop, A b ofo^-land requires 4 
Sgcr.j, oi cotton seed, and nine of that oiNmtony, and produces 96 
low! ot the .ctavony- The fanners can give no account of the quan« 
y of cotton wool that any ..... t fk produc ; it h 
