Kurli eri, hard or gravelly black soil.
Ilulaka eri, a kind of black soil in valleys. Sona burali, black soil mixed with lime.
Gochn oil, a very black kind, Eri, TAM., th3 blind of a tank, the bank built for retaining water in a reservoir.
Ern kanike, of Coorg, a plough tax levied as an educa tional cess at 3 or 4 annas a plough.
Ern, Hann, manure.
Fast, in the .N.W. Provincea, a crop, a harvest. Fasli, the harvest or revenue year. There aro two principal harvests in the year, the rabi and the kharif. The rabi or spring harvest consists of grains and pulses, wheat, barley, pens, grain (Do Hobos, sp.), ail-seeds, arhar (Cajanus Indicus), and other crops, which arc sown in October and November, and are reaped in February, March, and April. The kharif or autumn crops are sown before or at the beorrinning of the rains in June and July, and reaped at their close in October, Novem ber, and December ; generally, in Bengal, all crops reaped at the closing months of the year. The outlying fields, which are lightly cultivated, yielding, one crop annually, are called palo, also ek-faruli, also ek-fasli. Do-fasti, also Jutiyan, are lands which bear two harvests a year.
Garble, of Coorg, ran irrigated field. In Bombay, wet or paddy lauds fit for rico cultivation, or on which rice is grown.
Gairan, of Bombay, open pasture ground unsuited for cultivation.
Gharbai, of Ondla, irrigation done by hand.
(loom or Nyain is a term applied only to lands in the vicinity of wells and villages, which are abundantly irrigated and manured. Actual desert soil is called thul.
Goliani, Gorat, Bhumi, and Goind, land round a village. manured land around a village.
Gojai, of Bengal and Oudh, a crop of wheat and barley grown together.
Gomala, of Mysore, land set apart for grazing proton) land.
Goradu, of Bombay, land of light colour, varying from almost mere sAnd to soil of the richest quality.
- - - Its fertility depends on proper culture and abundant manuring. It Nornewhat remembles gorafl land of the Jainlaufar district of Broach Zilla. Gomdu kanetar la gorsdu irrigatod either from well+, rivers, or tank, ; Ovradu kuvelar is dry gomdu • Goradu padar is the poorest descrip tion. Tho Itharif crops stre mostly grown on it,—
arad, bajra, band, haunt, blainda, begen or rigna, chana or gram, chola, chillies, cotton, flhangar or tlry rice in small quantitirs, erandi, garden products, govar, jowar, kang, math, mung, pan, sugar-cane, tobacco, tur, tat, and val.
Gorat, of Bombay, seems to be the same sts goradu. It is a sandy soil of a light.brown colour, and varying from a reddiall-yellow to brown, quite free front stones. It absorbs the min rapidly, ataii.:,1,1 Inicovrear presents a broken surface in the dry sea muddy one in the wet. Fine water is found in almost every part of it at 30 or 33 feet from the surface. This Roil is often watered and used as baghait or garden land. It is one of the richeat descriptions of soil, and produces in rapid succes. sion the most luxuriant crops ; it abounds with fine trees, growing to the largest size, and having the most flourishing appearance. It requires to be well manured. From its great fertility the weeding is more troublegoine and expensive than in other lands, the cost of cultivating it being altogether double that of the inferior black soil. The crops mostly produced are the kharif cropa, and very little cotton or rawi jawar ia grown on it. Dhan or grain and kathor or pulse are sown in it at the same time. The other principal articles are bajra, baota„kodra, javar (alittle), kapas (a little), dhangar, dry nce in small quantities math, tuwar, tal, erandi, vat, arad, chola, govar, banti, charm. (gram), kang, bbinda, pau (indigo), tobacco, sugar-cane, beget) or rigna, chillies, plantains, Gorchargn, of Bombay, common pasture.
Gotham of Bombay, ground set apart for cattle pastur age.
Gowria, of Oudh, a variety of paddy sown in June and October.
Har of Oudh, a block or tract of land in a village, of 'the same quality, Hari, of Bombay, the third crop, succeeding the kharif or monsoon crop, and the rabi or second crop. It consists generally of kang (Panicum Italicunt) and chana (Cicer arietinum), and the poorer kinds of grain, brought forward during the hot season by irrigation.