hen came three teams, as
follows:

Lord Ducie's patent cultivator, drawn by an elephant; a skim, drawn by
another elephant, and a long wood plough, drawn by eight bullocks.

The field being divided into three sections, was thus quickly pared of
the turf, the patent cultivator working admirably, and easily drawn by
the elephant.

The weather being very dry and favorable for the work, the turf was
soon ready for burning; and being piled in long rows, much trouble was
saved in subsequently spreading the ashes. This being completed, we
had six teams at work, two horse, two bullock, and two elephant; and
the ploughing was soon finished. The whole piece was then sown with
oats.

It was an interesting sight to see the rough plain yielding to the
power of agricultural implements, especially as some of these
implements were drawn by animals not generally seen in plough harness
at home.

The "cultivator," which was sufficiently large to anchor any twenty of
the small native bullocks, looked a mere nothing behind the splendid
elephant who worked it, and it cut through the wiry roots of the rank
turf as a knife peels an apple. It was amusing, to see this same
elephant doing the work of three separate teams when the seed was in
the ground. She first drew a pair of heavy harrows; attached to these
and following behind were a pair of light harrows, and behind these
came a roller. Thus the land had its first and second harrowing at the
same time with the rolling.

This elephant was particularly sagacious; and her farming work being
completed, she was employed in making, a dam across a stream. She was a
very large animal, and it was beautiful to witness her wonderful
sagacity in carrying and arranging the heavy timber required. The
rough trunks of trees from the lately felled forest were lying within
fifty yards of the spot, and the trunks required for the dam were about
fifteen feet long and fourteen to eighteen inches in diameter. These
she carried in her mouth, shifting her hold along the log before she
raised it until she had obtained the exact balance; then, steadying it
with her trunk, she carried every log to the spot, and laid them across
the stream in parallel rows. These she herself arranged, under the
direction of her driver, with the reason apparently of a human being.

The most extraordinary part of her performance was the arranging of two
immense logs of red keenar (one of the heaviest woods). These were
ab