XV111 INTRODUCTION . 



In the first part of this book, we propose to discuss, in 

 brief, these necessary preliminaries to agriculture. In the 

 second we shall consider the principal cultivated crops of the 

 tropics in a general way, with a view partly to making sugges- 

 tions for their improvement. In the third part we shall go on 

 to consider village and capitalist agriculture respectively, with 

 the directions in which improvement seems most possible, and 

 in the concluding part of the work shall discuss agricultural 

 policy, and the organisation of a department of agriculture, 

 a thing which has now become a necessity in most tropical 

 countries. 



