Economic botany [of the Himálayan district / by Edwin T. Atkinson].

  • Atkinson, Edwin T. (Edwin Thomas), 1840-1890.
Date:
[1882?]
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Credit: Economic botany [of the Himálayan district / by Edwin T. Atkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AMAllANTACEyE OB AMAEANTHS, Amaranth us frumentaceous, Buck.—chna. » candatm, ll(K{.—kcddri chua. ft Jilitum, Linn.—chamli, PoLYGONACEiE. Fagopyrum esculentu»i, Moench., hncksyhevii—ogal, pdUi, ft tataricum, Goertn,, buckwheat—^7/ Cereals.* Tritioum vulgare, Li„„._Wheat, and Hordeum hexastichon, inn. B.irlej. There are four recognized varieties of wlieat — (1) ffcUn mfed or wliite wheat; (2), chhid-khdm or d<iwa, a white awnless variety grown in large quantities in the Kosi valley near Somesar; (3), daulat-kUni and (4) UUjeUn, tdnga or jmher, the bearded varieties. Wheat is called generically karu.k or yehun, and by the Bhotiyas mipM. The flour is known as dia or kanmk, Tliore are also several varieties of barley Rnoivn generically as jau ; a short-awued variety is called t-ena. When barley is Ln and reaped together with wheat, the mi.xect grain is called gojai • and with gram or peas or lentils, it is known as Mj„. I„ b„th these cases the grains are grown together and cooked and eaten as one. Mi,xed wheat and gram is called gochni below the hills. V heat and barley usually follow rice- in the same fields. These me prepared in Asauj (September-October} by ploughing and clean- ing, and, when practicable, they are irrigated by turning into them a stream from some river. The irrigated fields are sown in October- liovember and the uplands ui November-Becember. The seed is sown m furrows (s.ya), which are ag.ai„ covered i„ by the ploimh whilst toe clods are broken by toe dalaga and again Loothed by I heavy fl.it wooden log {maga) drawn by oxen and kept steady by a man standing on it. Barley ripens in March-Anril and wL-n month l^er, and yield about tenfold the seed sown. Both‘.!re cut in the middle ol the stalk with a sickle and tied in she.ives {antha) and stacked near the homestead to dry. When dry the sheaves are unbound and threshed out by a flat wooden board’with a short handle known as mm,the north-eastern &o., will bo I'oimd ]i’TOioai?-''p ‘f’ “sra- ITovinces,’ Part IV. ^ Loouoniic iioducts of the North-Western