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2 the’soil by a seventh plotighing, or by harrowing with a rude machine
3 drawn by oxen.
4 When the whole is pulverized, a plough of simple contrivance performs
5 the operation of sowing twelve rows at once by means of twelve hollow
6 bamboos at the lower end, piercing a transverse beam at equal intervals,
7 and united at the top in a wooden bowl, which receives the seed and
8 feeds the twelve drills;a pole at right angles with this beam is con-
9 nected with the yoke; the bamboos project below about. three inches
10 beyond the transverse beam, being jointed at their insertion for the pur-
11 pose of giving a true direction to the projecting parts, which, being cut
12 diagonally at the end, serve when the machine is put in motion at once
13 to make the little furroy and introduce the seed; a flat board placed
14 edgewise and annexed to the machine closes the process ; levelling the
15 furrows and covering the seed.
16 A weeding plough of very simple construction, by two operations at
17 proper intervals of time, loosens the earth about the roots and destroys.
18 the rank weeds ; and afterwards during the growth of the crop it is
19 carefully weeded at least three times by the manual labor of women
20 and children.
21 The agricultural implements in the Mysore country are mych the
22 same as those used in the neighbouring districts of the Carnatic, and
23 though simple and rude, are better adapted to their means and their
24 agricultural knowledge, and perhaps the requirements of. the ‘soil and
25 climate, than more expensive and penetrating machines,
26 Colonel Wilks, who was a keen observer dnd had travelled much, was’
27 of opinion that the farmers of Mysore guarded against the exhaustion
28 of the*soul, preserved and managed their manure, and conducted most of
29 the operations of husbandry, in a better manner than he had had an
30 opportunity of observing in any other part of India.
31 The principal land tenures in Mysore are as follows :—:
32 1. Candayem Lands.
33 2. Buttayee Lands,
34 3. Kayemgoota Villages.
35 4, Jodee Villages and Lands.
36 5. Shrayem Villages and Lands,
37 ast. The Candayem lands, either dry, wet or garden, are those
38 held by the Ryots from the Circar for money rents according to the
39 Rewaz or local standard rates, _