('ii.vi'T. xxvi. ' Hon of English Appliances. I"l 



For instance, it is nol to be concluded thai because Bteam 

 launches are the must profitable means of fishing in England, they 

 must necessarily be so in [ndia 



Fuel is more expensive here than in England, which is an 

 argument against steam, but winds and currents both run in the 

 same direction on the roast from which I write, so that working 

 against the current or getting hack to port againsl the wind, will 

 both be difficult, nay impossible, without steam. It is a question of 

 which the pros and cons must be worked out experimentally. A 

 small steamer could, perhaps, be lent for the purpose of a trial. I 

 believe all the Government vessels are Bcrew-steamers. Shift 

 could nevertheless be made for a trial. 



84 But I do not think that one Fish Farm will suffice for all 

 India, any more than one Agricultural Farm. I think that at the 

 very commencement there should be one in each Presidency. 

 Considering the areas sought to be influenced, this is very little; 

 I will be valuable that they should help each other by com- 

 paring notes of progress ami practical difficulties from time to time. 

 This they will naturally do if they all report to, and are under the 

 eye of, one central officer equally interested in all. and keeping all 

 informed of the progress of the others. At the same time healthy 

 emulation will be encouraged, and a wider knowledge acquired. 



85. The native craft used in fishing are of many sorts, from the 

 maran upwards, and it would have to he seen which could best 



be adapted to the use of large English nets, and native nets them- 

 selves would have to be compared for the purposes of adaptation to 

 the boats, to the seas, to the men, to the fish. 



86. The introduction of cotton in place of hemp in nets might 

 seem a minor matter, nevertheless it worked a perfect revolution in 

 English Bea-fishing, because a boat that used to carry '.hjo yards of 

 netting can now carry 3,300 yards. It might do the same in India. 

 We have now cotton-mills in India that could make the nets by 

 machinery even more cheaply here than they can in England 



87. An equally important branch of the Farm would be to 

 teach how best to cure lish for the Indian market, how to express 

 and send to market oil, how to prepare fish manure. Each one of 

 these is an important industry in itself; the three combined are 

 still more so. 



88. The chief fault of the present Indian curing seems to hi' 



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