. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. , orthe presence or absence of rain. Sowing and reaping go on in even,* month. 928. The soil of Ceylon is generally silicious, seldom with more than from one to threeper cent of vegetable matter. Dr. Davy (Account, $c.) found the cinnamon tree in astate of successful culture in quartz sand, as white as snow on the surface, somewhat greybelow ; conta
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. , orthe presence or absence of rain. Sowing and reaping go on in even,* month. 928. The soil of Ceylon is generally silicious, seldom with more than from one to threeper cent of vegetable matter. Dr. Davy (Account, $c.) found the cinnamon tree in astate of successful culture in quartz sand, as white as snow on the surface, somewhat greybelow ; containing one part in one hundred of vegetable matter, five tenths of water, anilthe remainder silicious sand. He supposes the growth of the trees may be owing in aconsiderable degree to the situation being low and moist. 929. The cultivation in the interior of Ceylon is almost exclusively of two kinds ; thedry and wet. The former consists of grubbing up woods on the sides of hills, and sow-ing a particular variety of rice and Indian corn ; the latter is carried on in low flat sur-faces, which may be flooded with water. Rice is the only grain sown. The ground isflooded previously to commencing the operation of ploughing, and is kept under water. while two furrows are given ; the water is then let off, and the rice, being previouslystieped in water till it begins to germinate, is sown broadcast. When the seed has taken L 3 150 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. I. root, and before the mud has had time to dry, the water is readmitted : when the plantsare two or three inches high, the ground isweeded, and any thin parts made good bytransplanting from such as arc too thick. The water remains on the field till the ricebegins to ripen, wfaicU is commonly in seven months : it is then let off and the crop cutdown with reaping hooks, and carried to the threshing floor, where it is trod out by buffaloes. 930. The agricultural implements of the Singalcse are few and simple ; they consist otjungle hooks
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