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The observations made at Madhu-giri on the cultivation of rice CHAPTER 
apply here in every respect, except that at Sira there are no Cal- 
l hays, or canals brought from rivers ; but the whole is watered from Au S- 
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reservoirs, or by machinery. Two Capilies , wrought by two men 
and four oxen, water a Colaga of land (If acre) that is cultivated 
with rice. 
The transplanted Ragy here is of two kinds : one is called Doda Transplanted 
Ragy, and is that which at Madhu-giri is called Gydda, and which liapJ ' S yno ~ 
is there cultivated on dry-field. Here, on account of the different canus, of the 
manner in which it is raised, it grows to a larger size. This is taken 
as a Kdrtika crop ; but for this there is not time, if the supply of 
water has been sufficient for a Vaisdkha crop of rice ; and the crop 
of rice that follows it is but indifferent. r i he differences between 
the cultivation of this crop here, and at Madhu-giri, are as follow : 
The seedlings are watered twice a day, till they are two inches high; 
fcnen only once a day. In £0 days they are fit for transplanting; 
and, before they are pulled, it is considered as necessary to loosen 
the soil by inundation. The field has five ploughings, and before 
the last is manured with dung. It is divided into plots by the 
same process as that which at Madhu-giri is used in the cultivation 
of Jola. The planted Ragy has water for the first time on the eighth 
day, and afterwards once only in 15 days. It is never weeded, but 
by occasionally plucking up with the hand any grass that may have 
grown. 
The other kind of Naf Ragy is called Tripathi, and grows in Transplanted 
place of the Vaisdkha crop ; but it is evident, from the time required a^aHed* 
to bring this to maturity, that in one year these two crops can Tripathi. 
never be taken from the same field. The mode of cultivation is the 
same as for Doda Ragy ; but the seed time is Aswaja, and the har- 
vest V aisdkha. For a TV ocula-land cultivated with Ragy, one Capily , 
with one man and two oxen, can raise a sufficient quantity of water. 
On rice land the farmers never willingly sow Jola ; as, even Joh Holcus 
should they have water, it totally prevents them from having rice sor 8 hum - 
