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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER hired in addition. Three kinds of cane are here cultivated. The 
most valued is the Restalli, which grows best on a black soil, in 
Aug,, 1—6. which there is much sand or gravel ; a good crop of this, on a 
Colaga-land , produces 100 Mauncls of Jagory ; which is about 294 
hundred weight on an acre. The next in quality is the Caricabo , or 
black-cane. It requires a pure black mould, called Eray burnt ; and, 
in a good crop, produces from a Colaga-land, 60 Maunds of Jagory, 
or from an acre nearly 17i hundred weight. The poorest cane is 
the Maracabo , or stick cane. It is cultivated on the same kind of 
soil with the Restalli; but produces only half as much Jagory as 
the Caricabo , and that of a very bad quality, for it is quite black. 
The cultivation of the Restalli , however, is comparatively much 
more troublesome. In the course of the eight months following 
the summer solstice, the field must be ploughed eleven times ; and 
once a month, during the whole of that time, 1000 sheep must be 
folded for one night on the field. It is then manured with mud 
from the bottoms of the reservoirs, and ploughed again twice. The 
channels are then formed, and in them the cuttings are laid down, 
two and two being always placed parallel. A Colaga of land requires 
50,000. The channels are then filled with water, and the cuttings 
are trodden into the mud with the feet. The second watering is on 
the 4th day, the third watering on the 12th ; afterwards the field, 
if the soil be good, must be watered once a fortnight ; or once a 
week, if it part with its moisture quickly. On the 20th day the 
field is weeded with the small hoe called Molu Potu , which implies 
that the operation is done very superficially. On the 35th day the 
whole field is dug with the large hoe called Yella Kudali ; and, the 
earth being thrown up toward the canes in ridges, the channels for 
conveying the water run between the rows. About the 90th day 
the canes are tied up with a leaf of the plant in parcels of five or 
six, and once a month this is repeated. When the cane is ten 
months old, the crop begins, and in thirty days it must be finished. 
