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Kaputen Gunung Kidul 

August 3 - second day of Dep. Pe. tour - toured Gunung Kidul, poorest of the D.I.Y. kabupatens - soil very rocky so that divisions between fields resemble stone walls - numerous small rocky hills of rounded shape (said to be about 2000) on which grass for cattle grows among the rocks in the rainy season, but no crops corn be planted - this grass drys up in the dry season + looks dead, but can still be eaten by the cattle (white bahamas) 
on small patches of soil be-tween hills singkong (also called ketela-cassova) + corn are grown
cassova is dried + made into 'gaplik' which piled in large square mounds inside the houses - later made into a grainy food which is cooked like rice + which the people of the area prefer over rice!
corn hung by pairs in rows along the rafters
according to a Dept. of[?]nd. official at Bantul who comes from the area, wells are difficult to drill because meet rock 4 or 5 meters down - in other areas, around town of Wonosari, soil may be too dusty + collapse inward if try to put down a well water, therefore, is the chronic problem in Gunung Kidul + areas we saw + other other further south grew no rice at all 
were told that when go further south water must be brought in by truck the last two months of the rainy season
visited Baron + Kukup beaches on the south coast - an underground river emerges on the coast at Baron - at this point where fresh water comes out of a rocky outcrop + suns in a stream a very short distance + then into the sea, there is a public bathing place where people from nearby villages are trucked in to bathe, wash clothes, + collect drinking water
cattle are also brought to this