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IS 248.2
Story of an Emigrant.
est, and if he can net ten cents a day by liis hard and hopeless labor, that
will suffice for the most pressing wants of his household. His home is a
mud, or bamboo-hut, his property a pair of small bullocks, a few cows,
calves and goats, a wooden cart, and a few brass and earthen pots, in all
worth about fifty dollars, and h;s implements and tools are of the rudest
kind, such as his ancestors used a thousand years ago; and vet he is making
some progress under British rule, and finds his wants increasing, and at
the same time better outlets for his produce and better recompense for his
labor, and on the whole, is so independent on ten cents a day, that he will
eat or store his wheat rather than sell it below a certain price. Of course
he does not employ machinery in farming, but plows his land with a
crooked piece of iron-pointed wood, harrows it with an instrument resembling a
common ladder laid flat on the ground and dragged by little bullocks
cross-ways over the field ; he sows by hand, reaps with a rude sickle, carries the
sheaves home on his back or in the bullock cart, threshes them with a
wooden club, or lets the cattle tramp out the grain, and cleans it by
hand-winnowing.
I.ABORF.RS AT THE INDIGO 1’RKSS.
India of course yields a great number of other kindsof
agricultural products, especially the indigo plant, from which
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