IV PREFACE. 



reasonable and practicable projects for improving in 

 any way, however humble, the Agriculture of the 

 country. So long as it existed, there was always a 

 hope, that amid the vicissitudes to which public affairs 

 are subject, some lucky turn of the wheel might bring 

 more enlightened ideas on these subjects into vogue, 

 and thus render possible its conversion into a real, 

 working Agricultural Bureau. 



All this has passed away, and the only hope for 

 India now lies in the chance that the real bearings 

 and vital importance of the questions herein discussed 

 may be better understood and appreciated in England 

 than they have ever been, since Lord Mayo's death, 

 by those in power in India. 



A. 0. HUME, 



Simla, 



July \st, 1879. 



UlUC 



