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I took leave to England) I found with a pair of bullocks I 

 could keep it sufficiently irrigated, and the three men and a 

 boy I had employed in it could keep it in order. I returned 

 to Budaon in January, 1867, and shortly afterwards found 

 one pair of bullocks could not raise sufficient water, so had to 

 get a second pair. The water in my garden is raised from a 

 well in a large leathern bucket, worked by a rope over a 

 wheel. Three men are engaged in the operation; one to 

 drive the bullocks, one to land the bucket when it arrives at 

 the well's mouth, and one to look after the water channels 

 and to distribute the water to the different beds. Thus three 

 out of my four garden hands were employed in irrigating 

 the garden. One pair of bullocks worked from early in the 

 morning till ten or eleven o'clock, and the other pair in the 

 afternoon ; so the time of three men was pretty well taken 

 up in irrigation, and the garden was always out of order and 

 untidy. As the soil got more and more hardened more water 

 had to be given, it being more quickly lost by evaporation. 

 Last year, 1872, at the commencement of the rains, I had one 

 plot dug up some sixteen or eighteen inches deep, the lumps 

 of earth being well broken. I had it sown with jowar (Holcus 

 sorghum), and shortly before the end of the rains I had the 

 jowar crop cut down and buried a foot deep in the field. As 

 soon as the rains had finished, about 20th September, I planted 

 potatoes in this piece of ground. 



I had just been reading a book of Mr. Holt Beevor's, in 

 which he recommended planting potato-sets nine or ten 

 inches deep in the ground. I followed his advice, although 

 I had never before planted potato-sets more than five or six 

 inches deep. The consequence of deep planting was that not 

 half the sets came up. 



On referring to Stephen's " Book of the Farm/' I found 

 he said potatoes would not show above ground if planted, I 



