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before the inclement dry hot season recommences. 

 In this respect there is a similarity to the range 

 of the cropping seasons of inclement northern 

 countries, where everything has to be suited to 

 the short-lived (though hot) summer, and where 

 the grains in use are of a kind that rapidly 

 mature the two elements, inclement heat and 

 inclement cold, compelling the same procedure. 

 The instruments in use in India are of very simple 

 manufacture. The poverty of the people, 

 and the necessity of simplicity in articles for 

 countries with few artisans, and the fact that old 

 and young, man, woman, and child of the 

 household, are all employed in the farm- work, 

 necessitates the retention of implements of the 

 simplest forms. 



The ordinary agricultural implements used in 

 simple tillage are often of the very rudest des- 

 cription. But the climate does not permit of deep 

 sowing, for the seeds must either soon sprout up or 

 rot, and the influence of the abundant rains and vast 

 electric forces on the soils of India are of a very 

 different character from those of England, and do 

 not require the same amount or kind of mechani- 

 cal treatment in order to produce the required 

 effect. The implements used are ploughs of 

 various sizes, and in some parts where the land 

 is heavy, eight, ten, or twelve bullocks are used, 



