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ON THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR. 
Offlciatina: Collector and Magistrate of Rungpore. 
XI.— Further particulars concerinn|i! the Cotton of 
Ava, By Major Burney. Xll. — On varieties of 
sample Cotton imported from Liverpool, with 
particulars of prices, &c. Communicated by Messrs. 
Willis and Earle. XLII.— Report of Jos. 
Wiilis, Esq. on Cotton grown at Duckiiisore, by 
Mr. Hastie, from Pernambuco seed. XLllI. — Ue- 
poit of Jos. Willis, Esq. oti specimens of Cotton 
raised by Col. Coombs at Palaveram. XLlV.— Re- 
marks on the culture of Upland Georgia Cotton 
at Allahabad. By W. Huggius, Esq. XLV.— On 
the culture of Pernambuco Cotton at Tavoy. By 
W. Maiugy, Esq Commissioner. XLVI.— On the 
culture of Sea Island Cotton in the distiict of 
Cuttack. By D. Pringle, Esq. Acting Collector. 
XLVil.— On the Gossypium Accuminatum of Dr. 
Roxburgh. By N. Wallich, Esq. M. D. XLVIII.— on 
produce of Upland Georgia and Sea Island 
Cotton Seed. By Major John Colvin, of Engineers. 
XLIX.— On the culture of .yea Island Cotton \n 
'I’irhoot. By Lieut. Col. Hamilton. L. — General 
Remarks on the Culture of the Mulberry Plant, 
mode of rearing the Worm, and instructions as to 
the best method of manufacturing Silk. By Do- 
ver and Norton, Great Winchester Street, London. 
LI.— On an improved Machme for tvinding 
Silk. With some interesting lemaiks relative 
to the coinpuralive modes of cultivating the 
Mulberry in Bengal and Western Asia. 
LII.— Remarks on the Raw and Manufactured 
Silks of Assam. By Capt. Jenkins. Llll On 
the Soils best adapted for the culture of Tobacco. 
By H. Piddington, Esq. HV.— On the cultivation 
Qi Tobacco in the province of Cagayan. By Col. 
Joseph De Hezeta. LV. — On Tobacco produced 
at Diamond Harbour, from Virginia, Maryland 
and Persian Seed. By Capt. C. Cowles. Parti, 
culars of the mode of cultivating and curing 7’o. 
^acco, adapted by Mr. G. F. Hodgkinson, at Gar- 
den Reach. LVI.— Remarks on the proper Soil, 
and best mode of curing Tobacco. By Dr. Cassa- 
iiova. LVII. — Account of ihe Gum Copal Cuout- 
chouc, and Tea Trees. By Lieut Charlton. 
LVlll.-On a disease incident to Ulsee and 
other grain. Communicated to Governtnent by 
Capt. Sleeman. LIX.— Report on Coffee, grown 
at Kussapuglah. By F. P. Strong, Esq. LX.— 'Hie 
Prangass Plant ; Correspondence between l.ord 
William Bentinck and iVlabaraja Ilnnjeet Sing, relat- 
ing to a supply of Seed for the Society, if procu- 
rable. LVI.— Remarks on the Tea Plant, and 
on the culture of Ginger, by G. W. Traill, Esq. 
LXl.*— Remarks on Assaniy by T. Hugon, Esq. 
LXI.*— On the culture of English Furze and 
Broom in India. By Capt. Vincent. LXll.-On 
the culture of Grape Vines. By Capt. Sage, Ex- 
peiimental introduction of American and 
Tobacco in the distiict of Munipore. By Capt. 
Grant, LX 1 1 1. — On Cachar Hemp. By Capt. 
Jenkins. LXIV.— Observations outlie best mode 
of preparing for transmission to India. By 
Jas. Gibbon, Esq. LXV.— On the Ginger of Rung- 
pore, and the prospect of improving its culture by 
importing roots from Jamaica. By Col. Joseph de 
Hezeta. LXVL — On the celebrated Melon of 
Bokhara. By Lieut, A. Buines. LXVIL— On the 
culture of Pufafoe^. By Capt. Richmoud. LXVIH. 
— On the culture oi Foreign Maize as an article 
of food. By John Bell Esq. LXIX.— On the 
Manufacture of Tapioca. By the same. LXX.— 
Remarks on the State of Agriculture in Behar. 
by Jas. Gibbon, Esq. LXXl.— On the applicability 
of Elephants as a moving power for Sugar Mills, 
&c. LXXll.— On the culture of Paddy in twenty 
different districts. By Baboo Radliakant Deb. 
LXX III. —Remarks on the Raewash, a species of 
Rheubarb, by Capt. Wade, LXXIV.— Society’s 
Farewell Address to Lord William Bentinck. 
LXXV.— Lord William Bentinck’s Reply to the 
Society’s Address. LXXVI.— Report of a Com- 
mittee on the subject of introducing the High- 
* Repeated by mistake. 
Wheeled Cart of Madras. LXXVlI.-On the treat- 
meiit of Peach and Plumb trees. By Lieut. 
Kirke. LXXVIll.— On the cultivation of \\\e Arti- 
choke- By T. Plowden, Esq. LXXIX — Furlher 
remaiks on Assam. By T. Hugon, l-sq, LXXX.— 
A new method of Grafting and Budding. By 
Lieut. Col. D. Presgiave. LXXXI.-On a newly 
invented continuous Still. By C. K. Robison, 
Esq. LXXXII. — Instruciions in regard to the 
culturo oi Madder- By G. F. Hodgkinson, Esq. 
appendix. 
Report of the Society for the year 1835. Collector’s 
Repoit. Proceedings of the Society. Regulations 
for the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of 
India, as .sanciioned at a General Meeting, llth 
March, 1835, Repoit on certain experiments made 
at Akra, in the growth of Foreign Cotton Sugar- 
cane and Tobacco. 
ORDER OF PLATES. 
1. Plan of a Mill for the raising of water, 2 . 
Drawing of Saw Gin. 3. Plan of grafting and 
Budding. 4- Newly invented Still. 
From this list we shall take some articles 
which appear to us calculated to shew the 
nature of the work itself, and to induce the 
reader to enter into the objects of the So- 
ciety. The paper by W. J. Halhed, Esq. 
on the cultivation and manufacture of Sugar 
in the Pergunnahs of Chandpore, Bignore, 
and Mindour, and Zillah North of Moradabad, 
will be interesting to most of our readers, as 
there is only one paper on this subject, we 
shall quote it entire, and resume the review 
of the work in our next. 
The land is broken up the month of Assar, and, 
after being exposed to the rains for the season, is 
manured and ploughed eight or ten times after the 
laliis, and being cleared of weeds, is again manur- 
ed and ploughed four or five times in February. 
Just before the cane is set, 4 cait loads of dung to 
eacli cucha beega, in low land, and 5 in high land, 
is the usual allowance : in geneial a cane field is 
ploughed from 15 to 20 limes; it is well rolled 
after the 4 last ploughitigs, and also after the cut- 
tings of cane are set. When the cane is set, the 
field is fenced with urhur sticks or other brush- 
wood : 20 bundles of cane, each 210 canes, 8 indies 
long, are used for one kucha beega of land, in low 
land, and 25 bundles in high land: the value of 
tile cuttings is at the rate of 5 bundles for 3 annas. 
When the shoots appear, which is generally in 
Maich and April, about 6 weeks after ihe cuttings 
aie set, the earth, on each side of the cane fur- 
rows, is well loosened with a sort of hoe, with a 
sharp point, and broad leaf, in shape sometbing 
like a mason’s trowel: this is done 7 times; (the 
fiist time it costs 7 annas; the other 6 times 3 
annas each time,) and the field is laid out in beds 
and channels for irrigation. If the season is usu. 
ally dry, the fields, in the low ground, are wateied 
in May and June, by means of wells dug for the 
purpose, as the water is not more than 12 feet from 
the surface: the price of labor for watering twice 
is 3 annas per beega, in the high lauds. If there 
are no nullahs or ancient puckah wells attbrdiiig 
facilities for irrigation, the Ccine takes its chance, 
as the cost of a kucha well, on the uplands, (from 
10 to 20 Rs.) would he too heavy for an individual 
cultivator, and there are not many who would be 
found to agree to dig one in partnership, or could 
abstain from fighting about the water afterwards : 
a kucha well, too, lasts but one season only, as the 
soil is light. 
Thekhadur, or low land sngarcane, is ripe in 
Kartick or October; that on high lands in Novem- 
ber, when all the inhabitants of the village ate em- 
