Report on the Revision of Settlement of the Panipat Tahsil & Karnal Parganah of the Karnal District, 1872-1880 (Paperback)

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. 1883 Excerpt: ...pick. The last gleanings arc left for the poor. 451. The cotton as picked is called kap&s, and is passed through a small hand-mill charkhl), consisting of a wooden roller revolving in contact with a very small iron roller, the latter nipping the cotton and drawing it through, and so tearing it off the seeds (binolci) which arc left on the other side. The kapds consists of about a third cotton and two-thirds seeds. The cotton thus ginned rut) is scutched ptnjna, dhunaknd) by the pumba or teli with a large double-stringed bow (pinan, dhunkd) hung from a flexible bamboo, the strings of which he twangs violently with a heavy plectrum of wood (fdrd), and the vibrations toss up the filaments and form them into a fleece, leaving the dirt at the bottom. For this he takes the weight of the cotton in grain. The women spin the cotton and give it to the weaver to weave, paying him one rupee for weaving about 6b yards. 183 Fine Rice. 452. After the cotton is picked, the cattle are turned into the field to cat the leaves, and the dried stems (battsatl, banchattl) arc cut down and used as withies for various purposes, or for fuel. The seeds are a valuable food for cattle, as they are very full of oil. Cotton is especially liable to the dl smut, and to attacks of caterpillars, and of a red worm in the pod. 453. Maize.--Two sorts of maize are grown; the peri or early yellow maize, and dhauli or late red maize. The former has the better grain, ami the latter is the more productive. Maize must have plenty of water, and must have at any rate a little fresh manure, even if sown after sugarcane. It grows best in light soils and well in sandy ones. It will not grow in very stiff soil. The ground is carefully dressed and the seed sown broadcast. It is weeded on the loth, 22nd, ...