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 84 PAR scarchers, and are allowed three-fourths of their findings on condition of yielding up the remaining share to the lord of the manor. Harvests.---There are only two principal harvests as recognized in the district of Partabgarh, known by the well known names of the rabi and kharif. The name benwat is unknown here. Within the kharif harvest, however, may be said to be included three minor harvests called after the months in which the several crops ripen. These are styled bhadui, kuári, and agabni. The subjoined table shows the division of these harvests, with regard to the ripening of produce :- KharSt. Rabi, Bhadui. Kuári. Agahni. Sán ván. Urd. Kákum. Makra Bágri dhán. Dhan Kodo 141 (white) Til (black) Patwa Sanai Maize Cotton Wheat Barley Arhar Pens Gram Sugarcane Poppy Sányán dhan 1.341 Sarson Barre or kasam Mustard Linseed Tobacco Cotton (manwa) Cotton (radhia) Jarhan rice Bájra Juár. Urd Moth Múng Patwa (seed) Rémdáns Labia Bhatol Jethi a Masür Sugarcane, síwán, and jetli dbán are to a certain extent intermediate crops, but belong more properly to the rabi division than to the kharif. Rotation of crops ---Fallows being in these days almost unknown, and manure, as previously stated, by no means abundant, it follows that if a certain rotation of crops were not observed the land would soon be utterly exhausted. By far the greater portion of the cultivated area in these parts is dufasli, or two-crop bearing land. The kharif crop is no sooner off the ground than preparations are at once made for sowing the rabi. A heavy agahni or kharif crop, like juár or bájra, is followed by a light spring crop such as peas or barley. This is repeated a second year, and in the third year no autumn crop will be sown; but the land will be well worked up, and prepared for a crop of wheat or sugarcane. The number of plough- ings the land requires for different crops varies very much. For instance, wheat is held to require, on an average, eighteen or twenty ploughings; tobacco, sugarcane, peas, and barley fifteen or sixteen ploughings; poppy twelve ploughings ; cotton eight; and so forth. Three or four ploughings
 * Sathi dhán.
 * So nated becaute it attains to maturity sixty days after sowing.