iron bar or arm. In this case the steel-yard is suspended by 

 the middle hookand the hook nearest the arm is not used at 

 all. This steel-yard supplied by the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment and used at the Sibpur Farm, has been found a very 

 handy instrument. 



(21) Machinery for tea, indigo, coffee and other planting 

 enterprises in which European capital and intellect are em- 

 ployed are not necessary to be described in a Hand-book ot 

 agriculture, though these subjects will receive some attention 

 in their proper places in Part III. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



EQUIPMENT OP FARMS. 



T3RINCIPLES stated, Having described the principal 

 agricultural machinery that are or may be employed with 

 advantage in this country, it now remains for us to find out some 

 principle of equipment that may be applied in -every case 

 mutatis mutandis. We have said that heavy soils require a 

 larger number of cattle and men, and consequently a larger 

 number of some of the cultivating appliances, than light soils. 

 There is another consideration that will materially affect the 

 question of equipment, viz., the system of farming adopted. 

 One labourer for 2 acres and one yoke of oxen for every 5 acres 

 of heavy land, is the allowance for ordinary arable or mixed 

 farming. Where gardening instead of farming is the system 

 mainly employed, e-g. in market-gardening near large towns, 

 where the largest outturn from the smallest area by high 

 farming is the aim, the allotment for cattle and farm implements 

 should be insignificant and the allotments for hand-labour, 

 garden-tools (spade, hoe, rake, scissors, d&o &c.), and manure 

 should be higher. In ordinary arable farming, no separate; 



