==============+====================================+=============== Caste. | Purpose for which paddy | Remuneration. | is given. | --------------+------------------------------------+--------------- Carpenters | For making and repairing | A big bundle | ploughs, etc. | of corn. Blacksmiths | For making sickles, knives, | Do. | and other tools. | Parayan | For lifting and placing the | Do. | loads of stalks on the heads | | of the Cherumans, who carry | | them to the farmyard. | Washerman or | For keeping off birds, insects, | Do. Mannan. | etc., from the fields by magic. | Vilkurup | For treating Cherumas during | Do. | their illness, and for shampooing | | them. | Kaniyan or | For giving information of the | Do. astrologer. | auspicious times for ploughing, | | sowing, transplanting | | and reaping, and also of the | | time for giving rice, vegetables, | | oil, etc., to the | | Cherumas during the Onam | | festival. | ==============+====================================+=============== "The Pulayans receive, in return for watching, a small portion of the field near the watchman's rest-hut, which is left unreaped for him. It fetches him a para of paddy. "The Cherumas who are engaged in reaping get two bundles of corn each for every field. For measuring the corn from the farmyard, a Cheruman gets an edangazhy of paddy, in addition to his daily wage. Three paras of paddy are set apart for the local village deity. During the month of Karkadakam, the masters give every Cheruman a fowl, some oil, garlic, mustard, anise seeds, pepper, and turmeric. They prepare a decoction of seeds, and boil the flesh of the fowl in it, which they take for three days, during which they are allowed to take rest. Three days' wages are also given in advance."