CHAPTER III. 



OF THE MILLIONS OF ACRES OF CULTURABLE LAND 

 THAT NOW LIE WASTE IN INDIA, HOW TO BRING 

 THEM INTO CULTIVATION. 



IT cannot be supposed, however, that the results 

 which I have foreshadowed in the preceding* chap- 

 ter, will be obtained without much difficulty, pro- 

 bably some disappointments, and certainly very 

 great care and attention on the part of the con- 

 trolling 1 authority.. It is impossible when examining- 

 undertaking's involving- extensive agricultural opera- 

 tions, to exclude considerations connected with the 

 three principal elements of their vitality, viz.. Land, 

 Labour, and Capital, their relation to one another, 

 and to circumstances as existing- around them. For, 

 these considerations, as affecting- cost of production, 

 it is obvious, must enter if not directly more or less 

 remotely, into all questions connected with the com- 

 mercial policy of a nation : and, if they be over- 

 looked, complications in reg-ard to one or other, will 

 be certain to arise, that may endang-er altog-ether 

 the success of the undertaking's, and under any 

 circumstances cause much embarrassment. At the 

 outset then we are met with the necessity of solving- 

 problems, involving fundamental principles in a 

 comparatively new science, which, however students 



