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which are considered as exhausting crops. It is cultivated exactly CHAPTER 
in the same manner as Huruli is, ripens in three months, and in a 
good year produces sixteen seeds. Except for feeding camels, its Aug. i — 6\ 
straw or husks are of no use. 
Barugii is of two kinds; white, and black. A sandy soil of any Grain called 
kind agrees with this corn, which is also valuable as requiring very 
little rain. The straw is better fodder than that of rice. In the 
second month after the vernal equinox, plough three times. 
After the next rain, in the following month, either sow with the 
drill, and harrow with the rake drawn by oxen, or sow broad-cast, 
and plough in the seed. In three months it ripens without farther 
trouble, and in a favourable season produces sixteen seeds. 
Near Sira a very small quantity of cotton is raised ; and, like that Cotton, 
of Madhu-giriy it is of a quality inferior to what is brought from 
Balahari , and other places nearer the Krishna river. The soil on 
which it is sown is a black clay containing nodules of lime-stone. 
In the two months following the vernal equinox, plough three 
times. At any convenient time, in the two next months, mix the 
seed with dung, and drop it in the furrows after the plough, form- 
ing lines about nine inches apart. A month afterwards plough 
again between the lines ; and in order to destroy the superfluous 
plants and weeds, use the hoe drawn by oxen three times, crossing 
these furrows at right angles. The second and third times that this 
hoe is used, it must follow the same track as at first ; otherwise too 
many of the plants would be destroyed. Between each hoeing 
three or four days should intervene. In six months the cotton 
begins to produce ripe capsules, and continues in crop four more. 
The plants are then cut close to the ground ; and after the next 
rainy season the field is ploughed twice in contrary directions. A 
month afterwards it is hoed once or twice with the same imple- 
ment. and it produces a crop twice as great as it did in the first 
year. In the third year a crop of Shamay or Namny must be taken, 
and in the fourth year cotton is again sown, as at first. 
