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Subsoil ploughing; Rolling; Mulching; Harrowing ; burning sod and stubbles ; 

 Stifle-burning ; Warping. pp. 94 to 104. 



PART II. IMPLEMENTS. 



Chapter XI. Motive power, or Prime movers. Classification. Work 

 of man ; English farm-labourer and different classes of Indian farm-labourers 

 compared ; Wages for piece-work 5 Animal-power, where suited ; improvement 

 of Indian agriculture chiefly by means of a more extended employment of 

 bullock-power; calculation comparing horse-power with Bengal bullock-powe- ; 

 Bullock-gears ; Wind-power; Cheap wind-mills, aeromotors ; power-mills; 

 calculation for estimating efficiency of aeromotors ; Erection of aeromotors ; 

 Water-power, efficiency of water-wheels and turbines compared ; advantages 

 of water-power over other forms of power for agricultural purposes; Steam- 

 power, Stationary, Portable and Traction engines ; Gas and Oil-engines ; 

 Electricity as a motive-power. pp. 105 to 127. 



Chapter XII. Ploughs and ploughing. Indian ploughs of various 

 sizes and efficiency ; Defects of Indian ploughs ; Deep-ploughing with cheap 

 implements; Improved ploughs; Principles of improvement; European ploughs 

 (swing and wheel ploughs, multiple ploughs, seeding ploughs, paring ploughs 

 subsoil piough, double mould-board plough, pulverising plough, one-way 

 ploughs, sulky plough) ; Draught, swingle and yoke ; the Potato digger 

 Steam ploughs; Judging of ploughing; English system of ploughing; calcula- 

 tion of area that may be ploughed in one day ; Expert opinions regarding 

 possibility of improving the Indian plough. pp. 127 to 150. 



Chapter XIII. Other cultivation appliances. The Grubber or Cultiva- 

 tor (the Madras grubber) ; the Harrow ; the Hand-rake ; Seed-drills ; Ndri- 

 nagar with Surtha\ Hoes ; Bullock-hoes ; Hand-weeders ; Scythes; Threshers ; 

 Winnowers. pp. 15010159. 



Chapter XIV. Theories underlying the question of irrigation. 

 Character of water used of great importance; rain, well, canal, river and sea 

 waters compared ; Evaporation; storage tank ; solids in solution ; Endosmosed 

 sap must be thinner than exosmosed sap ; how quantity to be determined | 

 Irrigation of paddy fields ; Drainage; Depth of water pp. 159 to 165. 



Chapter XV. Water-lifts. Classification according to depth of water 

 to which each is adapted; net result of Indian experience ; the single-mot 

 with self-delivery tube; the double- mot ; Stoney's water-lift ; the Sultan 

 water-lift ; the Seesaw water-lift ; Mr. Chatteerton's experiments; the Madras 

 pai-cota ; Terd or Ldthd\ Chain-pumps ; Persian wheels, Egyptian appliances 

 for irrigation (Sackiyeh, Taboot, and Shadoof;; the Noria ; wind-mills} 

 Baldeo-bdlti ; Artesian and Tube-Wells ; Windlass and Bucket lift ; pumps 

 and Fire-engines ; centrifugal pumps; comparison of cost of -irrigation with 

 different appliances. pp. 1 66 to 1 88. 



Chapter XVI. Other agricultural implements. Bull's dredger, Rice- 



