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a lot of little modifications, minor alterations, etc., can 

 be made at home after you get your machines which 

 will help to ease the burden, but you must keep them in 

 perfect repair and -well oiled. Bamlett's Reaper-Thirsk, 

 Yorkshire, England, is an excellent machine for Indian 

 \vt)rk. 



For storing "all" your machinery, boilers, and imple- 

 ments, however small, have a covered godown. This with 

 fair care and attention will repay you as also a covered 

 engine shed and shafting : while orderly and systematic 

 storage, a place for everything and everything in its place, 

 will make your dead stock return and godown register 

 an unmixed blessing and also facilitate the day's work. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



As on most Military Grass Farms buildings are already 

 existent, more or less, to enter into, any detail herein would 

 be superfluous. If you have the opportunity of doing any 

 building, do it with an eye to the future, possible extension 

 and development. Build for use not ornament, always 

 bearing in mind that the better your ^^^^,^^^_^^^^^ 

 establishment, animals, and machinery 

 are housed the better and more smoothly will your show rim. 

 The farm offices should be quite conveniently near the 

 manager's house but ''not" a part of it and the two places 

 as central as possible for easy communication with the farm 

 yard, post office, treasury, and railway station. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Out-door Establishments.— In addition to the manager, 

 who should be everywhere and see everything at varying 

 hours, except on the smaller farms an Indian overseer is 

 also necessary as an immediate assistant to the manager, 



