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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Qitf.ky Fkom a Doomdd One. —•Aβ man and wife are one, must the husband when seated with his v.'lfc, be beside liiinsoif. The Milling ? ovid tolls its renders how the Hindoo reaps with an iron bland, six inch lonj,', an inch wide, and curved like a siclde, costing him four cents. He squats on his hctsls, cuts a handful, lays it down, and without rising oil' his heels waddles forward and cuts another. In twelve days lie cuts an aero, and receives live cents a day, boarding himself. Wl en he wan in to thrash his grain he drives a stake in the. ground, spj-ends the fj-aiti around it, tics a rope on his bull's horns and then to Hie .-r.".l;e, and drives them around and around till the straw is trampled very fine into wh.it they call " bhoosa." This is f.-d to the cattle after the wheat is separated. Kiidishmcii have introduced thrashing marhines, but the Hindoo:, will have none of thorn. They liiinlt their cattle von'd not, eat the straw because it breaks it instead of trampling it flat. They nlenn their wheat by hololii!'.; it up in the wind in a scoop made of reeds, or, if tho wind ia not blowing, two Hindoos make wind by waving a blanket, whiitt a third diibblcs the grain from tho !i'.:ooji.