In the cultivation of the _sáwahs_, the plants are uniformly transplanted or removed from their first situation. In those of _tégal_ or _gága_, they grow to maturity on the same spot where the seed was originally deposited, whether this be on high mountainous districts, or on low lands, the distinction of _sáwah_ and _gága_ depending exclusively not upon the situation of the field, but in the mode of culture, whether wet or dry. In raising rice in the _sáwahs_, inundation is indispensable till it is nearly ripe. The seed is first sown on a bed prepared for the purpose, about one month before the season for transplanting it, and the plant is during that time termed _bíbit_. Two methods are in use. According to the first, called _úrit_, the ears of _pári_ are carefully disposed on the soft mud of the seed bed; in the second, called _ng'éber_, the separated seeds are thrown after the manner of broadcast in Europe. In by far the greatest portions of the island, the ground is prepared, the seed sown, and the plant removed, during the course of the rainy season, or between the months of November and March. In situations where a constant supply of water can be obtained from springs, rivulets, or rivers, two crops are produced in the course of twelve or fourteen months; but the advantage of double cropping, which exhausts the soil without allowing it time to recover, has been considered as very questionable. If in some situations commanding a supply of water, the earth is allowed to rest after the preceding harvest, during the latter end of the rainy season, and the transplantation made in the months of June and July, it generally yields more profitable crops than the common method of working the _sáwah_. This, which is termed _gádu_ by the natives, has been recommended by the experience of European planters. Irrigation is exclusively effected by conducting the water of rivers and rivulets from the more or less elevated spots in the vicinity, and in this respect, differs materially in its process from that of Bengal, for although considerable labour and ingenuity are exercised in detaining, regulating, and distributing the supply, by means of dams, called _bandáng'ans_, no machinery whatever is employed in raising water for agricultural purposes in any part of the island. The rice grown on _sáwahs_, is of two kinds, _pári génja_ and _pári dálam_. In the former, the harvest takes place four months after the transplantation; in the latter, six months. _Pári génja_ having the advantage of a quicker growth, is therefore often planted when the rainy season is far advanced. _Pári dálam_ is more prolific, and yields a grain of superior quality, comprising those varieties in which the ears are longer and more compound. The varieties of each kind are distinct and permanent.