2012, ISBN: 1231176202

[EAN: 9781231176207], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… More...

[EAN: 9781231176207], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . like an English spade, with a short handlo put in at right angles to tho spade. The men stand in a lino about 6 feet apart, and throw the earth from one to the other. If Sind were entirely dependent on Sindeee for carrying out heavy work, very slow progress would be made; but fortunately numbers of Afghans come down for employment each cold season--say from November to April--and are capital workers, and use a spado and barrow well. From the other side of India, Cutchees come with carts; other tribes with bullocks and donkeys, to carry tho earth in bags. For ordinary canal clearance the Sindee "hurees," or cultivators, have to be depended upon. They are independent and deceitful where work is concerned, and cheat in earthwork excavations; it takes a good deal of experience to detect their frauds. However, with a little tact they will, in an emergency, do work which no extra wages would induce them to do. The total area of the plains of Sind is about 20,689,000 acres, of which about 11,578,000 consist of barren land: the population was, in 1869, about 1,578,000; so that there are about 5-77 acres of cultivated or cultivable land per head of population. Irrigation is carried on by---1. Natural flow ("moke"); 2. Water raised by Persian wheels (" charkoe "); 3. Rain (" baranee "). The principal crops are rice, cotton, jowaree, bajaree, till, (oilseed); and these are grown in the Khureef season, from May to October, when tho Indus is in flood. Gram, wheat, barley, oilseeds are grown from November to May, principally on land that has been flooded during the inundation-season. A good deal of sugar-cane is grown in Lower Sind, but only on the banks of the Indus or perennial canals, as it requires plenty of water for eight mo.<