LABOUR $9 



Cumbu.— Twelve to twenty women for cutting 

 earheads and 6 to 8 women for cutting straw, depending on 

 the size of the crop. 



Removing cotton stalks. — Four to five men will clear an 

 acre. (See Guntaka above.) 



With the cotton puller (leaflet XIX of 1911) the 

 work can be done in the dry weather by 5 women or less 

 per acre. 



Groundnut. — In South Arcot, the land is dug over by 12 

 to 15 men with the mamuty and 5 women to each man collect 

 the nuts, i.e., 75 to 80 women per acre. A rainfed crop may 

 be ploughed with a country or special plough and the nuts 

 collected by hand, if the land is sandy. 



Sweet potatos. — Forty men to dig and 30 women to turn 

 over and collect the vines and tubers. 



Onions. — Digging, lifting, carrying and cleaning 10 men 

 and 60 women. 



Other pulses. — The crop will be picked over two or 

 three times and may need each time 4 to 5 women per acre. 



Paddy. — Six to ten men or 10 to 12 women will reap the 

 crop. Bundling and carrying to the floor close by, 2 men and 

 4 women. Stacking if done preparatory to threshing, 1 man 

 per acre. 



Magi. — Twelve to sixteen women to cut heads off an 

 acre on two occasions and 6 to 8 women for cutting straw. 



Tenai. — In Ceded districts for a mixed crop of Korra- 

 pathi, 6 women per acre. For a pure garden crop 10 women 

 per acre. 



Tobacco harvesting.— Four men will harvest an acre in 

 a day cutting the leaves off the stalks ; 2 men and 10 women 

 will carry and stack the produce. 



Stripping and bundling — Six men and twelve women 

 drying, and heaping 6 men. Finally 8 men and 12 women will 

 open, sort and rebundle leaves and sprinkle salt water on 

 them. 



Turmeric. — Twenty men and forty women will dig or 

 clean an acre in a day. 



Basking— Paddy. — Two women should finish a selagai 

 (160—170 lb.) in 5—6 hours. They may do as much as 1£ 

 selagais per day. A cooly of paddy, i.e., one day's work is 16 

 Marakkals for which 1^ M.m. are given. 



Intercnltnring— Bulloch hoeing.— With dantulu, about 2 

 acres for each danta, i.e., for three, 6 acres per day, for four, 

 8 acres a day. In the Ceded districts it is not uncommon to 

 cover 9 to 10 acres in a day. 



