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ment of an indicating lever. The Four-Furrow Improved 

 Seeding Plough with seed-box and conductors complete is 

 priced at j. This plough, used not for the first ploughing 

 but for subsequent operations and specially for sowing, may 

 have a very important future before it, if capitalists go in 

 more largely for agriculture in this country. 



177. The paring plough. The paring plough is an ordi- 

 nary wheel-plough fitted with a share 12" broad. It is used 

 for doing very shallow work, and the wheels are adjusted so 

 as to turn up slices i" or 2" deep. The Deccan Bakhar 



FIG. 25.- THE BAKHAR. 



(Fig- 25) can be used as a paring plough, either for stifle- 

 burning sods or preparing a seed-bed on ploughed up land 

 which is fairly dry. The Bakhar does not work in wet clay 

 land for preparing seed-bed. For ploughing wet fallow land 

 2 or 3 inches deep, for destroying weeds, and for preparing 

 a fine tilth on fairly dry soil, the Bakhar is a very valuable 

 though inexpensive implement. The knife of the Bakhar is 

 made about 2 ft. long and with a pair of strong bullocks one 

 can prepare 2 or 3 acres of land for tilth and at the same 

 time destroy the weeds. 



178. The Subsoil plough is like an ordinary single 

 furrow plough, but of stronger constru6tion, having a deep 

 body and a large mould-board. It is used behind an ordinary 

 swing, or wheel-plough along the same furrow, and it turns 

 up the subsoil. It is used only where the subsoil is known to 

 be better than the surface soil. Requiring two pair of horses 

 it is clearly unsuitable for Indian use. 



