1 ( 94 )
2 annual value of Canteroy Pagodas 40,178-1-14 (Rupees 1,16,882-0-1)
3 and received a money allowance of Canteroy Pagodas 10,531 (Rupees
4 30,635-10-3,) being together Canteroy Pagodas 50,709-1-14 (Rupees
5 1,47,517-14-5.)
6 Mysore is favored with two monsoons, called by the Natives Moongaree
7 and Hingaree. “The former, called by us the South-West, commences '
8 usually in April, with violent thunder-storms, The latter or North-East
9 ‘generally finishes about the end of November. The rains which fall during
10 the year are perhaps more fancifully, than scientifically, classified by the
11 natives under twenty-seven heads, named after the twenty-seven cham-
12 bers, in each of which the moon is set down in the Hindu Calendar as
13 entering and remaining for thirteen days and twenty Gharrees in the
14 course of the annual changes. For each of these periods, the duties of the
15 husbandman are set down with as much minuteness as in an English
16 Gardener’s Calendar. .
17 The natives divide the soils of Mysore into four classes, which are here
18 set down in the order of their merits :—
19 1st.—Ragud or Black Soil.
20 2nd.—Mufsul, a mixture of Red and Black.
21 3rd.—Red Soil.
22 4th—Red Soil mixed with Gravels.
23 According to the favorite mode of calculating by the divisions of the
24 Rupee, the natives consider that the cultivable land is divided
25 among these soils in the proportion of three, four, five and four-sixteenths
26 respectively,
27 Of these the black alone 3 is regarded as sufficiently rich to do without
28 manure. For the others every available source of enrichment is resort- .
29 ed to, with the exception of night: soil and the dung of swine. Not
30 the least popular of these resources is found in the leaves of certain trees,
31 which in the Western parts are often seen heaped at the entrances of
32 villages to be trodden into manure in the rains by the feet of every
33 passer-by. It can never be enough regretted that the universal practice
34 of using cow-dung for fuel should rob the soil of the one material which,
35 from the great number of cattle kept, would exceed all the other ferti-
36 lizing agents put together. P
37 They are not acquainted with the value of miinera] manures,
38 although they have not failed to observe that land in some instances is
39 penefited by the washings from mountains, They have great faith in.