LABOUR 43 



Watching paddy.— One palikapu to watch and irrigate 50 

 acres if in one block. 



Weeding by hand. — Three to five women will weed an 

 acre of land. The figure varies very much with the state of 

 the land. 



Winnowing 18-inch machine. — One woman turning, two 

 supplying and one collecting will clean 3,000 lb. of cholam, 

 1,000 lb. of paddy, 1,500 lb. of ragi or tenai and 2,250 lb. of 

 cumbu in a day. (Half the quantity noted above of cholam, 

 if machine threshed, on account of the presence of glumes.) 



Wrapping— Canes.— First time 15 men per acre to wrap 

 and 5 boys to remove rubbish and weeds. 



Second time 20 men to wrap and 10 boys to remove 

 rubbish. 



Third and subsequent 25 to 30 men to wrap and 1 or 2 

 boys to remove rubbish. 



Fixing bamboos.— (3,000 to 3,500 per acre.) One man will 

 fix about 300 bamboos per day.' 



*Cost of Labour by Piecework or Contract or 

 Share System. 



Cotton ginning.— Three annas per maund of 26 lb of 

 kappas. Eight pies an edai in Tinnevelly. Ten to twelve 

 annas by machine for 250 lb. of kappas, Rs. 5 per candy 

 (500 lb.) of lint. 



In Tinnevelly Re. 1 for 247 lb. of kappas. 



Cotton picking. — Usually on the share system, one-tenth to 

 one-sixteenth according to the ease of picking and the yield 

 of the season crop. Out of season, it may go down to one- 

 third. 



Cotton stalks, removing. — This can be done at Rs. 1-4-0 

 per acre. It is much cheaper with the puller. (See page 36.) 



Crovibarring. — In Coimbatore Rs. 10 — 15 per acre in wet 

 lands. Rs. 7—10 per acre in wet lands in Godavari. 



Dry lands Rs. 6 to 8 per acre in the Godavari. 



South Arcot Rs. 12 to 15 per acre. 



Cumbu harvest. — One-sixteenth to one twenty-fourth of 

 the produce (Tinnevelly). 



Digging Hariali.— Coimbatore, Rs. 32 in black soils and 

 Rs. 37 in red soils per acre. The contractor is bound to clear 

 anything left in the next year, pending which one-tenth of 

 the sum is withheld. Rs. 5 extra per acre, if the work is in 

 patches. 



# These are all at pre-war rates and will in most cases 

 have to be considerably increased. 



