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to circumstances) more of every kind of crop than it 

 at present produces, and this with a fully correspond- 

 ing increase in the profits of cultivation, is a patent fact 

 that the writer has proved with almost every common 

 North-Western Provinces' crop, that Mr. Eobertson 

 has proved with most of the Southern Indian staples, 

 that has been in fact established as well as any point 

 can be, until the masses prove it for themselves. 



But — and this is the explanation of the apparent 

 apathy that has ever left our most important source 

 of revenue, the only one capable of very great de- 

 velopment, absolutely, if I may use the phrase, uncul- 

 tivated — the immense majority of officials in India 

 never have, and do not to this day in the least believe 

 it, while the very few who do realise it as an abstract 

 truth, stand aghast at the gigantic nature of the task 

 involved in securing the supply and use of this proper 

 manure and recourse to this proper tillage. 



It is, however, just to pick to pieces a formidable 

 obstacle like this, that looms so portentous when 

 viewed from a distance and en masse, and to demolish 

 it in detail, that a special and skilled agency is re- 

 quired. 



And, whatever the expense involved, it would seem 

 that, looking to the enormous magnitude of the mere 

 pecuniary interests at stake and the almost over- 

 whelming necessities that oppress us, we should, we 

 must, have that agency. 



After all, a healthy equilibrium of the finances is a 

 primary condition of the well-being of the State. Can 

 anything be more gloomy than our financial jDrospects? 

 More money we must have ; much more as time goes 



