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tackle it, but there is nothing inherent in the business to keep Indian 

 manufacturers from learning- and extending it. 



229. More simple developments of the industry may be readily 

 attempted in new modes of curing fish, such as pickling in salt, 

 smoking, etc. : these involve less expenditure of cajiital and less risk 

 of spoiled goods. The risk run is in the possible loss of money should 

 the public tail to accept goods of the novel character proposed. 



230. In these industries knowledge is required which is not at 

 present possessed by local capitalists ; the very ideas are novel while 

 the technical knowledge necessary for working the ideas into going 

 industries and the practical aud business knowledge needful for 

 pushing the trade are entirely wanting. Hence it is that Government 

 has been called upon to experiment and demonstrate. But if the 

 example of Japan has any weight, surely it is for Indian capitalists to 

 follow it, viz., either by visiting foreign countries in person or by 

 delegate to observe and to learn, or by hiring foreign experts to teach 

 on the spot. By learning is not meant mere study even at the best 

 technical school, still less that dilettante dabbling in industries which 

 is sometimes mistaken for the mastering of the art and trade : it is 

 more Japonico, the apprenticeship of men, with a proper educational 

 grounding, to the business in all its details, the long drudgery which 

 combines the study of the principles and bases of an industry with 

 the strenuous, coat-off tackling of the practical work of the factory, the 

 trade, and the market, after the fashion of the educated young 

 Japanese who, for two years, had been living and toiling as an ordinary 

 sea-going fisherman aud curing hand at Yarmouth in view to master 

 the details of the Yarmouth herring industry. 



231. Possibly for Indians the best, if the more expensive method 

 for private enterprise is to enlist foreign experts as the Japanese have 

 done just as readily as they have gone abroad ; for many years well- 

 paid foreigners hired for the purpose, worked, supervised, taught the 

 various Western methods as in engineering of various kinds, ship and 

 railway building, canning and pisciculture, weaving and spinning, and 

 so forth, till the Japanese felt that in each case they could stand alone. 

 It is now for Indian capitalists to study the marine and inland 

 fisheries of this Presidency in all details, the catching, manufacturing 

 and culture branches, the trade openings whether in fresh fish or 

 in cured fish or in manure and by-products, the inland market and the 

 openings for export. The Indian merchants who so largely conduct 

 the internal trade of the country and who skilfully and profitably 

 trade in various branches with many parts of the East and West 

 should be perfectly capable of studying what should be the second or 

 third industry of the country, and, if convinced of Indian possibilities 

 and needs and of the markets available whether internal or foreign, of 

 combining both to obtain experts and implements and to send selected 

 students abroad for thorough practical training in each specific branch. 



