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field by drawing a plank over it. It requires neither weeding’ ^PTER 
nor manure. For fodder its straw is inferior to that of Ragy , but w . 
superior to that of rice. The seed for a Wocula- land is Seers . Ju b c * 
Agava Jola ripens in 4f months, and in a good crop produces 12 
Colagas ; Kempa Jola ripens in 4 months, and produces 10 Cola- 
gas ; the Hessaru ripens in the same time, and produces 8 Colagas. 
Peck. Bushels. 
An acre sows - 0,69418 Agava J. produces - - 26, 
Kempa J. - - - 22,213684 
Hessaru J. - 17,770909 
The pulse called Udu here is the same with that at Seringapatam. Udu . 
It grows best on a black soil, which it does not injure for the suc- 
ceeding crop of Jola. Plough twice in Ashadha or Svdvann, the 4th 
and 5th months after the vernal equinox. After the next rain sow 
broad-cast, and plough in the seed. In 3\ months it ripens with- 
out farther trouble. The straw is only useful as fodder for camels. 
A Colaga-land sows twelve Seers , and in a good crop produces 
24 fold. 
An acre sows 1,11068 peck and produces 6,66133 bushels. 
The pulse called Hessaru is cultivated exactly in the same man- Hessaru . 
ner as Udu. Cattle can eat the straw. The husks, or dry pods, of 
Hessaru , Udu, and Avar ay, are reckoned a fodder superior to even 
Ragy straw. In three months the Hessaru ripens. A IVocula- land, 
in a good crop produces 4 Colagas. 
* An acre sows 1, 1 1068 peck, and produces 8,8854 bushels. 
In the Tdrkari, or kitchen gardens, here, the principal articles Kitchen 
are maize, transplanted Ragy, wheat, turmeric, capsicum, onions, § ardens > 
gailic, and hemp, which is only used to intoxicate. Large gardens 
are watered with the Capily, and small ones with the single Yatam. 
The water in the wells is about 21 feet below the surface. A garden 
' of a Colaga- land requires four men and four women to work it. 
The men, however, occasionally perform other work, and the women 
spin. 
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