This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...left in the field for a few days to dry. When the grain is ready to be transported to the granary, the muthia are made into larger sheaves. Six to eight muthis form a thor or jhnp, and five or six thors a dangari. A dangari is then affixed to either end of a sharp pointed bamboo called biriya, and the load, which is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...left in the field for a few days to dry. When the grain is ready to be transported to the granary, the muthia are made into larger sheaves. Six to eight muthis form a thor or jhnp, and five or six thors a dangari. A dangari is then affixed to either end of a sharp pointed bamboo called biriya, and the load, which is called a bhar and carried across the shoulder, is taken to the homestead by the men. The different kinds of sai dhan fall under two main divisions, lahi and bar. Labi, ripens earlier than bar, and, though the grain is of a finer quality, the yield is appreciably smaller. It is planted on the higher fields which dry up first at the conclusion of the rains, and which cannot therefore be cropped with the more productive bar dhan. Altogether there are said to be no less than 74 different varieties of Wi dhan in the district. Bao dhan is sown broadcast about the end of B-o duan February, the field having been previously prepared by four or five ploughings. It is grown in flooded tracts, and the embankments made between the fields are smaller than in the case of na!i, and are sometimes dispensed with altogether. It ripens about the beginning of December and is harvested in the same way as soli. The total area under bao is less than 2,000 acres and about half of this is grown in the Salmara mauza. Abu dhan also is usually sown broadcast, and is Ahu dhan. grown under two different sets of conditions. The greater part of the ahu raised is sown on the chaparvt, or high-riparian flats which fringe the Brahmaputra. The usual procedure is as follows: --In May, the jungle is cut down and sometimes burnt, and the land left till towards the end of the rains. If any jungle has sprung up in the interval it is cleared in the same way, the process being known a..
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