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If the field has been entirely watered by a reservoir, the cultivator CHAPTER 
gets one half. If he has used the Capily entirely, he gets two- 
thirds. If the water has come from a canal, he gets five-ninths. If July 25, &c, 
the water in the tank lasts for 3 months, and afterwards the culti- 
vator must use the Capily , he gets three-fifths. 
A portion is left at the bottom ; from which, for every Candaca 
that has been in the heap, are taken, 
Seers 144 to be divided equally among the Gauda, or hereditary 
chief, Shanaboga, or accomptant, iron-smith, Talliari, 
and Toty, or watchmen, washerman, barber, carpen- 
ter, and pot-maker. 
26 for the Nirgunty, or conductor of water. 
36 for the Madiga , or tanner who makes the Capily . 
12 .for the Shanaboga, or accomptant. 
12 for the Gauda, or hereditary chief. 
66 a scramble now takes place, and each of the above 
mentioned persons, the mendicants excepted, takes 
about 6 Seers . 
12|- given before, , 
366 \ Seers, if the heap contained 1320, are thus given away. 
The proportion on a larger heap will be some trifle less. If any 
remain, it is divided between the cultivator and renter, by the 
same rule as before. The Madiga, or tanner, gets also the sweep- 
ings. Such a manner of division could only be continued from 
"its offering great opportunities to defraud government. 
It is here estimated, that a plough will cultivate as much dry- Workner- 
field as would sow 36 Seers of Ragy, or about 6 acres : or as much forjnc ‘ d h 'J 
one plough;. 
watered land as would sow three Colagas of Paddy , or about \\ stock, 
acres. If both be mixed, it would cultivate about 44- acres of dry- 
field, and of watered. A plough requires at least one man and 
two oxen ; but if the farm be properly stocked, there ought to be 
three for each plough. Many farmers in every part of the country 
