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but in most parts small ploughs are used which 

 can be worked with two bullocks or two buffaloes. 

 The mode of ploughing is lengthways and cross- 

 ways, the land being ploughed in this manner 

 three, four, and five times. The following imple- 

 ments are also drawn by bullocks : a heavy 

 harrow, drill for sowing cotton, weeding machine 

 to eradicate weeds between the rows of cotton, 

 drill for sowing grain, with extra tubes at the side 

 with which another description of seed or oil seed 

 is very commonly sown in every fifth row, weeding 

 machine for rooting up the weeds between the 

 rows of grain. A large cart drawn by eight 

 bullocks is not often seen in the Deccan, but is 

 very common in the Southern Mahratta country. 

 The tyres are commonly six inches deep; a pair 

 of wheels costs up to Rs. 120 (12) ; they last 

 fifty or even a hundred years, and are handed 

 down as heir-looms in families. For rice cultiva- 

 tion the following implements are used : Plough, 

 clod-crusher, levelling machine, and a drill these 

 are worked with two bullocks. The hand imple- 

 ments are : A weeder and Kodali or mattock 

 (Indian spade). These will show that the people 

 of India are well advanced in agricultural skill, and 

 that they are doing as much as their humble cir- 

 cumstances, the climate, the soil, and the required 

 crops will admit. Their aids, the buffalo and the 



