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the same way as with wheat. The results are shown in the 

 following statement : 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OTHER CUI/TIVATION APPLIANCES. 



*l ""HE Grubber. The ordinary Cultivator or Grubber is a 

 simple enough instrument for Indian use. A five-tined grub- 

 ber with duck-foot coulters, mounted on two wheels can be 

 easily 'worked by two bullocks on land already ploughed and 

 reploughed, once one way and the second time across. The 

 advantage of using the grubber consists in the fact, that it 

 stirs the soil to a varying depth of 5" to 9", uprooting 

 and dragging weeds and coarse grasses before it. It stirs the 

 soil deep without turning it up. The practice of smashing 

 up land by ; jcultivators instead of systematic ploughing has 

 greatly increased in England and we can take the hint in this 



