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third manure with dung. In the following month, after a heavy CHAPTER 
rain, or after having watered the field, sow with the drill, and 
harrow with the rake drawn by oxen. It is then divided into plots Aug. i> 
like a field of Jola ; and once a fortnight, when there is no rain, 
water is given. 
In place of the Valsakha crop, when there is a scarcity of water, Wheats; Tri* 
wheat, both Juvi and Hotay are sown on rice-lands. These grains coccum., and 
may be followed by a Kdrtika crop of Ragy ; but by this process 
the ground is as much exhausted, as if it had been sown with Na- 
*cony. If the Kdrtika crop be altogether left out, the Vaisdkha crop 
of rice following wheat will be as good as if the ground had been 
regularly cultivated for rice alone ; and in India it is a commonly 
received opinion, that, where a supply of water admits of it, ground 
can never be in such good heart as when regularly cultivated by a 
succession of rice crops. Wheat requires a clay soil, and the man- 
ner of cultivating both kinds is the same. In the two months pre- . 
ceding, and the one following the autumnal equinox, plough five 
times. In the following month, after a rain, or after having wa- 
tered the field, plough again, and drop the seed into the furrows. 
Then divide it into squares, as for Jola , and water it once a month. 
The straw is only used for fire. If given to cattle for fodder, it is 
supposed capable of producing the distemper. 
The ground for cultivating sugar-cane is divided into two equal Sugar-cane, 
parts, which are alternately cultivated ; one year with cane, and 
the other with rice. It is watered either from the reservoirs, or by 
the machine called Capily. In the last case, a field of two Colagas y 
or three acres, one half of which is in sugar-cane, and the other in 
rice, requires the constant labour of four men and eight oxen. 
Day-labourers must also be hired to rebuild the boiling-house, to 
tie up the cane, and to weed. When the field is watered from a 
reservoir, one man only is regularly employed ; but to plough, to 
plant, to weed, and to tie up the cane, both men and cattle must be 
