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Rs. 450, or Rs. 550 landed in Calcutta), meets the demands 

 qf smaller capitalists or farmers who do not require to shell 

 such a large quantity of paddy as indicated above. Not 

 being such a powerful machine as the Hullers Nos. i & 2 

 which are adapted for steam-power, the paddy used for Huller 

 No. 3 must be free from sticks, straws and grit. It requires 

 two horse-power to drive it, and a high-speed horse -gear 

 may be employed for the purpose. The Engelberg Huller 

 Company supply such horse gear for 65 dollars. Two pairs of 

 powerful Hissar bullocks may be employed to drive it instead 

 of two horses. The outturn of clean rice per hour from this 

 huller is about 70 Ibs., which is equivalent to about 7 maunds 

 per day. The whole of the capital outlay inclusive of bullocks 

 (but exclusive of the building or shed) in this case would be 

 about Rs. 1,000. The pay of the two attendants one looking 

 after the bullocks and the other feeding the huller and 

 removing sacks of rice when full, need not exceed 6 annas a 

 day in a country place, and the feed of the 4 bullocks need 

 not cost more than 8 annas a day. The cost of husking in 

 this case, therefore, comes to only about 3 annas per maund 

 of rice turned out, inclusive of interest on capital and wear 

 and tear. 



302. We have in discussing the efficiency of Messrs. 

 Burn & Co.'s Mill already given the average cost of husk 

 ing paddy with dhenki. It is possible with the help of 

 expert women to get more work out of dhenki. Two 

 parties of such women, one working from 6 to 12 

 in the morning and the other from 12 to 6 in the even- 

 ing, can turn out from 4 maunds of paddy an average 

 quantity of either 2\ maunds (more exactly 2 maunds 25 seers) 

 of steamed (siddha] rice or 2\ maunds of unsteamed (atap] 

 rice. In obtaining the former an extra woman besides the 

 three at the dhenki is required for steaming and drying the 

 paddy and thus keeping the supply at the dhenki uninterrupt- 

 ed. Two parties of 4 women at 2 annas a day will cost one 



