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P.B. - referring to the drops along main road agents get pottery from them to give money after in installments give credit in advance for clay & fuel 25% in advance & rest paid in installments after get pots - are 4 shops along main road - agents also come from [?] [?], etc come to commission agents, not to potters directly reason that potters don't have storage capacity 2-3 mo in winter & 3 mo. in rainy season in winter not possible to work outside, hands get too cold & clay stiff (commission agents have many storerooms, but they are also producers) - When they go to villages, villagers pay in kind in grain & they store this grain for off-months in winter & rain season they go to towns & get work as laborers, mainly construction workers at harvest season go to fields & help tenants & other servants of landlords; none of them even on main road have electricity one man said potters need technical assistance need ball bearings now move wheel by foot want sheds to protect [awa?] from rain & consequent breakage of pots they want credit MCO feels would need 30,000 for shed of sufficient size they get clay from empty lands of landoweners must beg for the clay & if landowner not willing a problem