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 carts1 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.