36 LABOUR i 



LABOUR. 



Cane harvesting.— For cutting 10 cents of cane ( J to 12 

 men will be needed. For cleaning, stripping, topping and 

 bundling 10—14 women. Carrying will depend on the lead. 

 At 20 tons to the acre of cleaned cane, there will be 2 tons 

 from 10 cents ; this will be crushed by a three roller mill with 

 two good pairs of animals, working in shifts in 12 to 14 hours. 

 The juice from this will be 2,800—3,000 lb. One man to 

 feed canes, one boy to drive, one boy to remove megass and 

 help generally. A pan holds about 400 lb. and will give 

 about 90 lb. of jaggery. 



Carting manure. — Two carts, one left for loading while 

 the other goes to the field, one pair of cattle, one driver and 

 two men loading will fill and take to field ten carts per day 

 with a lead of not more than half mile. 



Carting, silt. — The same as above, but one man for loading 

 may be enough. 



Clearing, heaping and burning scrub jungle for modem 

 paddy. Malabar : — Five men and five women per acre. 



Clod crusher. — The area worked by this daily depends 

 on the state of the land, i.e., the size and hardness of the 

 clods, and will vary from 1 acre with two pairs and a loaded 

 crusher, to 3 acres with single pair in light land. 



Cotton ginning.— One woman will beat and gin 25 lb. of 

 cotton per day. Tinnevelly : — One woman gins 3 edai or 

 $1 lb. in a day. 



One man will keep about 12 ginners (on piece work) 

 supplied for a day. 



A double roller gin will clean from 2,000 lb. to 2,500 lb. of 

 ordinary cotton in a day's work of ten hours. Nadam cotton 

 is harder to gin and only about 1,500 lb. will be put through 

 in a day, while with Cambodia as much as 3,000 lb. per day 

 may be finished. 



Crowbarring. — Thirty-three to forty men working in 

 gangs of two, one digging and the other turning over clods, 

 will dig one acre a day. 



Digging viet land with mamuty. — In Tanjore district 12 

 men per acre for first digging ; 8 men after first puddling. 

 At Coimbatore it takes 16 men. 



Cultivating.— The Martin's cultivator at Coimbatore 

 with two pairs of cattle covers 4 to 5 acres per day. 



With the gorru worked as a cultivator, 3 to 4 acres a day. 



Working guntaka. — With a 3-foot blade, a man can cover 

 4 to 5 acres per day. 



