mcnco, but the favourite time is after, and consists in a holiday feast
provided by the owner of the field. Not only the men who work, but
all their household, attend. The edibles must be wheat-flour (not jawdri,
the ordinary diet), rice, gdr, ghi, and dil. This process is quick but
expensive, and is usually confined to temple servants, who have large
holdings of rent-firee land without any cultivating establishments.*

III. — Mode of Husbandry. '\

To clear new ground the husbandman cuts or bums down the trees
on it, and digs up the roots. He then ploughs it up, whether deep or
shallow, using two (never less) or more up to four pairs of bullocks for
the maiden-ploughing, according to the kind of soil and the cost of his
plough.
Nearly everywhere, but more especially in the deep soil in this
district, the agriculturist has to contend with a strong-rooted persistent
kind of coarse grass called hand; the roots shoot out and intertwine
in a mass through which the plough cannot always be forced ; here it
has to bo dug out sometimes to the depth of three feet, and then is not
wholly eradicated ; it must crop up after a few years, but a steadily
maintained warfare eventually conquers it.
The ploughing need not be repeated in a well-prepared field for
any number of years up to twenty, not in fact until the kund re-appears.
