146

Naw* of tools
and
implements.

Life
in
years.

Cost in
Rs.   A*.   P«.

Use.

Repairing
Charges in
R*. As. Ps.

27- Sarak (rope)

10

400

Binding   heaps   of
grass  or  bags of
corn    loaded    in

| | | carts. |

28. Jotar

2

1     0    0

Tying   bullocks   to
the yoke.

59. Nandi

1

1     0    0

Tying the yoke to
the cart.

30. Supdu | 1-2 | 050 | Winnowing. |

SI. Topic

99

080

Carrying grains on
head.

According to our house-to-house census the village
possessed in the winter of 1927 the following numbers of
tools and implements. We have omitted very small and
unimportant tools of little value like topla (basket) or
jotar or nandi.

Big carts^1	198
Ploughs with yokes    329
Harrows	102
Axes	435
Pick-axes	360
Hoes	286
Parei	157
Panjethi	326
Scythes	398
Sickles	1551

Seed-drills	193
3-coultered drills	2
Cotton harrows	7
Sugarcane seed-drills    IS
Leather bags	55
Yokes	110
Sugarcane presses	4
Accompaniments of the
press	8
Clod-crushers	12

Of these, the most important instruments according to
the notion of the people are carts., ploughs and seed-drills
for the average cultivator, and leather bags, seed-drills for
sugarcane and sugarcane-presses for the average grower
1 Besides these, there were 19 small carts for riding, which may be valued
-at.Rs. 2850. These being of the nature of luxuries are not regarded
as agricultural implements.