2Q4- Ghatak's bullock-power paddy-husking machine as 

 modified and sold by Messrs. Burn and Co. for Rs. 60 only, is 

 well adapted for use in jails and also for famine operations. 

 The rice from this mill gets somewhat broken, and there is a 

 larger proportion of paddy in it even after three turns, than 

 in ordinary bazaar rice. At a trial held at Messrs. Burn and 

 Go's workshop at Howrah on the i2th January 1901, the 

 following information was compiled : The trial lasted for 

 2 hours exactly. The paddy used was new paddy of the 

 Kataribhog variety grown at Sibpur. It had been properly 

 steamed and dried. The quantity used for a full charge was 

 29 seers. Instead of 2 bullocks, 8 men were employed at the 

 shaft and one man for feeding the mill. The paddy came 

 out at the vent at the bottom only partially husked, the first 

 time. It had to be run through the mill twice more before 

 satisfactory result was obtained. The rice obtained at the 

 third turn weighed after winnowing 17 seers. The winnow- 

 ing machine, which is quite a separate machine, is priced Rs. 

 65. It does its work very well and it is capable of winnow- 

 ing 40 to 50 maunds of rice per day. 



295. The mill looks from outside like an ordinary ghdni 

 or kalu (oil-mill). The vertical cylinder worked by the 

 bullock-shaft has attached to it three sets of slanting vanes. 

 The cylinder is kept in position by rings joined to the outer 

 cask of the mill by three sets of bars. The paddy in working 

 its way down from the hopper through the bars into the vent 

 is subjected to the squeezing action of the vanes. It is by 

 this action that the husk gets detached from the rice, in the 

 same way as the detachment takes place if paddy is rubbed 

 or squeezed between the palm and the thumb. 



296. Comparing the cost of husking paddy with dhenki 

 with that of husking it with Messrs. Burn and Go's mill, it 

 will be found, that there is some advantage in favour of the 

 latter for husking coolie rice, i.e. coarse rice for consumption 

 by poor people. The 29 seers of paddy filled the mill at 



