One of the very few instances where the Chinese are at last allowing machinery to be introduced is the use of petrol engines for irrigation. Quite a number of these little engines are being used: in the place of the laborious treadmills which have been employed for so many centuries for pumping water. The engines are mounted on bouts, which go from place to place and contract for irrigating the rice Holds.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 12
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