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(3.) Money to expend in giving effect to these and 

 in experiments, &c. 



The Department of Revenue, &c., has nevey- had any 

 one of these three requisites at its command. 



The only person connected with it from first to last 

 who has possessed any knowledge of both the theory 

 and practice of agriculture has been the Secretary, who 

 has had always from eight to ten hours a day (and 

 often much more) office work, and who for ten years 

 has barely seen a field, except from the train, on the 

 occasion of the half-yearly migration of the Govern- 

 ment of India between Simla and Calcutta. 



It has never had any agency, though the creation 

 of a Directorship of Agriculture in the North- Western 

 Provinces in recent years has at last originated a 

 nucleus in 07ie province out of which such an agency 

 will, it is to be hoped, develop. Last, but not least, 

 it has had no money. 



How it comes that the Government should have no 

 money to spend on improving the one branch of in- 

 dustry to which it chiefly owes its revenue, will be 

 briefly discussed further on. At present it is sufficient 

 to say that it had not the money to give. There was 

 no illiberality. Without a fundamental alteration in 

 its entire policy, no Government, situated as ours has 

 been, could have given for agricultural reform any- 

 thing that would have been of material use. 



Constituted therefore and carried on under these 

 conditions, no one possessing any real insight into 

 what is required could ever have expected from this 

 Department any very tangible results in the way of 

 agricultural reform. 



