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Implements. The chief cultivation implements in use 

 on the farm are the " Punjab plough," price lis. 27, and the 

 Spring-toothed Harrow made by Wallace Bros. As the 

 fields are large nearly all crops are drilled 2-2-| feet apart 

 with the exception of cold weather cereals. The system of 

 interculture with bullock-drawn hoes is a great saving of 

 labour. The cereals are drilled with a 10-coulter " English 

 drill " and very straight work can be done. 



After rain the surface of the soil is kept broken up when 

 required by Wallace's horse hoes, chain and toothed 

 harrows. 



A good deal of work has been done in levelling up low 



places in the fields with a new form of scraper, adapted by 



the writer. An account of this and a simple wooden plough 



very useful for rough work has been prepared as a bulletin. 



Five scrapers with two jDloughs working in front of them 



levelled 17 acres of some very rough rice land at Pusa in 45 

 days. 



III. Farm Cropping. 



Maize. Maize is sown for silage and cutting green and 

 also for grain. The local variety is used. Trials with 

 American varieties have not been very successful. Thirty 

 to forty acres are sown in February in land which has been 

 well cultivated in the cold weather to conserve moisture, and 

 this is cut and fed to the cattle, beginning in the middle of 

 May. The main sowing occurs after the rains in June. 

 Trials are being made with jo war (Sorghum vulgar e) sown 

 very thickly as a substitute for maize. When sown like 

 maize the yield is greater but there is waste with woody 

 stalks. 



The maize for cobs has arliar (Cajanus indicus) sown 

 along with it in the drill, this occupies the ground in the 

 cold weather after the maize has been cut out. 



In " Chandman " field, 17 acres of maize yielded 323 

 maunds of silage per acre; cost per acre of growing was 

 nearly Rs. 20 and return Rs. 121. 



