The subvarieties are very numerous, amounting, with those of _kétan_, to more than a hundred. _Kétan_ is a distinct variety, with very glutinous seeds, seldom employed as an article of food, except in confections, cakes, and the like. Of the varieties of the _pári génsha_, _mentik_ and _anchar bántap_ are preferred. Of the _pári dálam_, those of _krentúlan_ and _súka nándi_ are most esteemed, being remarkably well flavoured and fit for keeping. _S'lámat jáwa_ yields also rice of good quality. The bearded kinds of _pári_ are always preferred for keeping, as the grains do not readily fall off. Near _Súra-kérta_, the principal native capital, close to the site of the former capital _Kérta-súra_, there is a peculiar tract inundated by water from a fountain at _Píng'gíng_, which is said to produce a grain of very superior flavour, from which the table of the _Susuhúnan_ is supplied. _Súka nándi_ is the kind uniformly preferred for these plantations. For _pári gága_, whether in high or low situations, the ground is prepared by ploughing and harrowing, and the seed is planted after the manner called setting in some parts of England. The holes are made by pointed sticks, called _pónchos_, and into each hole two seeds are thrown. Only careless husbandmen, or those who cannot procure the requisite assistance in their labour, sow by broadcast. In high situations the earth is prepared before the rains commence: the seed is sown in the months of September or October, and the harvest takes place in January and February following. _Gágas_ of low situations are planted about a month after the harvest of the _sáwah_ is got in, and frequently receive temporary supplies of water from a neighbouring rivulet. In high situations, to which water cannot be carried, they are sufficiently moistened by the first rains of the season. During their growth, they receive several hoeings from the careful husbandman. As the grain ripens, an elevated shed is frequently erected in the centre of a plantation, within which a child on the watch touches, from time to time, a series of cords extending from the shed to the extremities of the field, like the radii of a circle, and by this cheap contrivance, and an occasional shout, prevents the ravages of birds, which would otherwise prove highly injurious to the crops. These little elevated sheds in the interior, and particularly in the district of _Bányumás_, are very neatly constructed of matting. The reapers are uniformly paid, by receiving a portion of the crop which they have reaped: this varies in different parts of the island, from the sixth to the eighth part, depending on the abundance or scarcity of hands; when the harvest is general through a district, one-fifth or one-fourth is demanded by the reaper. In opposition to so exorbitant a claim, the influence of the great is sometimes exerted, and the labourer is obliged to be content with a tenth or a twelfth.