Burma . the mud as the buffaloes turn over in theirwallow. While crops are standing, cattle have to be kept in pens at night, andherds have to watch them by day. This work is done by children from twelveyears upwards. The buffalo-pen is made near the house, if possible in awater-logged spot where the animals can wallow in the mud, which protectsthem from the bites of gad-flies and mosquitoes. Where there is no wallow,smoky fires have to be made to keep the insects away. In certain localitiesof the delta cattle have to be protected with curtains. In the arid regionfodder has to be grown for the
Burma . the mud as the buffaloes turn over in theirwallow. While crops are standing, cattle have to be kept in pens at night, andherds have to watch them by day. This work is done by children from twelveyears upwards. The buffalo-pen is made near the house, if possible in awater-logged spot where the animals can wallow in the mud, which protectsthem from the bites of gad-flies and mosquitoes. Where there is no wallow,smoky fires have to be made to keep the insects away. In certain localitiesof the delta cattle have to be protected with curtains. In the arid regionfodder has to be grown for the cattle, but goats find pasture and are keptfor their milk ; they areworth five to twenty ru-pees a head. The rice-fields firstploughed and ready aresown broad-cast for nur-series (/j)/o-^/«). A monthlater, when the rice-plantsare about a foot high, theyare taken up and trans-planted into the preparedfields, a span apart. Theroots are simply presseddown into the soft slush m. drivino home the
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