When the cultivators have marriages he performs the same duties for the whole wedding party, and receives a present of money and clothes according to the means of the family, and his food every day while the wedding is in progress.

He supplies water for drinking to the reapers, receiving three sheaves a day as payment, and takes sweet potatoes and boiled plums to the field and sells them.

The Kumhar or potter is not now paid regularly by dues from the cultivators like other village menials, as the ordinary system of sale has been found to be more convenient in his case.

But he sometimes takes for use the soiled grass from the stalls of the cattle and gives pots free to the cultivator in exchange.

On Akti day, at the beginning of the agricultural year, the village Kumhar in Saugor presents five pots with covers on them to each cultivator and is given 2 1/2 lbs.