Chah, PERS., a well. Chalii, land irrigated from wells.
Chabal, HIND., is a strong soil ranking between rousli and dakura.
Chanch, of Bombay, the Jeela or Jeelun and the Pe-cottah of the Madras Presidency, a contrivance for raising water, upright stand supporting a transverse beam, with a waterpot at one end of the lever, balanced at the otber by a stone or clay.
Charaa, of Panjab, a leathern bag for raising water for irrigation.
Chasa, of Bengal, a cultivator, a husbandrnan, a plough. man.
Chatar, of Bengal, a blight.
Chatali, of Bengal, a pulse crop, reaped in March or April.
Chatan, of Bengal, uncultivated land on the bank of a river.
Chau-masa, of Oudh, lands tilled during the four rainy months of the S.W. monsoon, June to September, set aside for the best crops.
Chaytra, the Bengal month, parts of March and April. Chet, of Sind, is the spring crop.
Ch'hut, of Sind, lands sown broadcast.
Choil. Low lands that receive the drainage of neighbour ing uplands, and cannot carry it off, so that it lies, are called choil. They are unproductive for want of drainage. High tracts from which the water drains off quickly, are called magra and thalli.
Chuni, of Sind, a ploughshare.
Dania, of the Central Provinces, is the Kumari of S. India, and Jhum of Burma and Chittagong Hill Tracts, land cultivated by burning down tbe forest woods or brushwood, and sowing seed on the ashes.
Dakra,, Dakara, or Dhakar, HIND., of the Upper Doab, is a stiff dark clay lying in natural dips and hollows, where water collects and lies during its rains ; it dries into hard cakes.
Daman, of Sind, shallow soil.
Dang, of Bombay, forest or jungle land.
Dangar, of Bombay, rice crop raised as ono of the kharif or monsoon crops. It is sown in kyari or black soil, at first in Darnvadi or small beds of the richest soil, and in July. or August transplanted into beds which had previously undergone three or four ploughings while in a flooded state. The crop ripens in October. There are six varieties,— alaichi, karnod, pankhali, sathi or vari, and sutar sal ; the first and last are the most common.
Darya, a. river. Darya baramadi, of Sind, land thrown up by a river. Darya burdi, land eroded suddenly in large masses. Darya khurdi is land gradually eroded by running water.
Dhan, URDU, a growing rice crop, also unhusked rice ; in Malay padi, English paddy. In Bombay, the dhan crop is the main grain crop, consisting of bajra (Penicillaria spicata), banti, bavta, jowari (Sorghum vulgare), and kodra (Paspalum scrohic.).
The dhan crop is in contradiatinction to the kathal or pulso crop. Dim laid anal Lilian tnarri Inman a rico tidal.
Debar and Kalyar or Kimliar, in Oudli, are luw lands flocated during the rains. Debit. are lands flooded autunin.
Dims, of Midnapur, laiglt land close to a village, yield ing two crops.
Dlackudi, of Bombay, a contrivance for drawing water from the beds of rivers. Phekudiat is land so irrigated.
Dhenkli, of Bengal, a lever used for raising water for irrigation. See Chanch.
Maim', of Orissa, a rice crop grown on low marshy ground during the cold weather, and reaped about March or April.
Dianth or Diyara, of Bengal, Benares, Ghazipur, alluvial soil, an islet in a river bed.
Do-fusla or Do-fusli, of N. India, land producing two crops in a year.
Dol, URDU, a leathern bucket used for thawing water from a well.
Done, of Bengal, low rico land.
Doomuteea, in N. India, is of a light-brown colour, soon powders into fine dust, and requires much inorc outlay in manure and labour than the inattiyar soil Doras or Dores, of Bengal, land half sandy and half clay.
Doshabi is the (lomat of Hindustan, a clayey soil, generally of good quality, manured by cattle being folded on it. When manured, it grows cotton, fine wheat, barley„ jowar, makai, melona, etc.
Dutnat, of N.W. Provinces, a soft loam, land of first quality, consisting of clay and sand.
Dunbi kali, cracked black soil ; it absorbs moisture) largely.
Eri bliumi, of Dharwar, is black Roil, of which five kinds aro recognised, viz. :— Uttama eri, first class black soil, without stone or impurities.