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the Government side, of a carefully devised general and 

 technical education — and other assistance — in which 

 demonstration through experimental stations, fixed and 

 peripatetic, shall play a chief part. Such are the main 

 items of the direct programme for the Madras Presi- 

 dency. Be it remembered that if we take the present 

 annual catches in this Presidency roughly as 150,000 

 tons of edible fish, this is but one-seventh of the British 

 catches for a similar population ; that the addition of 

 only 100,000 tons would mean additional edible rations 

 of something like 180 million pounds, or nearly 4.5 lb. 

 per head for every man, woman, and child in the Presi- 

 dency, an appreciable addition to the food of the meat- 

 eating population, while there would also be 20,000 tons 

 of offal, etc., for conversion into manure ; the whole of 

 this mass of food and fertilizer would be pure gain to 

 the country and especially to the working classes, while 

 various by-industries, which there has been no space to 

 discuss, would accompany the development ; such indus- 

 tries are those which relate to boat building, machinery, 

 the pressing and refining of edible vegetable oils, the 

 production of vinegar, pottery, refrigeration, co-opering, 

 pearl button making, tin plate working, etc., to say 

 nothing of increased traffic and business dealings. 

 Briefly, the goal aimed at is the development of a vast 

 existing industry with its concomitant by-industries in 

 such way as to stimulate and develop, enrich and whole- 

 sonely feed, the greatest possible number of people in 

 the desirable process of adding the harvest of the sea to 

 the harvest of the soil. 



