MYSORE, CANARY, AND MALABAR. 
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The farmers here say, that a fallow between the two crops of sugar- CHAPTER 
cane would not answer, and that the crop of rice gives strength to 
the ground. Aug, 1 — -6. 
No watered fields are here reserved for the cultivation of wheat, Cultivation 
or of Jola ; but when there is no rain, the bottoms of reservoirs are °/r heat j 
cultivated for these grains, and for Car lay. This kind of ground Car lay, in 
not being divided in Colaga-lands , no estimate can be formed of the ofdryresei 
produce ; but both Jola and wheat thrive better on the rice-lands. voirs,> 
The Carlay succeeds in the bottoms of reservoirs. The kind of Jola 
sown here is the Agara. The operation for all the three grains is 
the same, and is very simple. In the second month after the winter 
solstice, the ground is ploughed, and the seed is dropped into the 
furrow after the plough. It is then smoothed by drawing a plank 
over the ground, and no more trouble is required. 
The soil in the bottom of the reservoirs is al ways a fine friable Reservoirs 
mud, being what is washed from the fields by the rains, and again choked° ^ 
deposited, when the water stagnates in the reservoirs. In all old 
reservoirs a great part is filled up by this soil, and thus their capa- 
city is much diminished ; and, when a village has been deserted 
for some time, unless the mound breaks down, its tanks in general 
become entirely obliterated. Nothing therefore can be more ad- 
vantageous than the cultivators carrying away this mud as a manure 
for their land ; and, as it is of an excellent quality, they would find 
their advantage in taking it, as fast as formed; at least in such 
parts of the country as afford them a permanent interest in the soil. 
In most places however, either from indolence or want of encour- 
agement, or from both, the farmers neglect to remove the mud, 
and the public is put to a considerable expense in keeping the 
reservoirs clear. 
The leaves that are here used as manure for rice lands are, the Leaves used 
lloingay , or Kobinia mitls ; the Coghi, or Gale ga purpurea ; the Yecada, asraanuie * 
or Asdepias gigantea ; the Tumbay, or Phlomis esculent a, Roxb; MSS,; 
