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should be required to do, and that power should be 

 taken to order this, and to punish by some trivial fine 

 disobedience of such orders. 



This power existing in the background, no compe- 

 tent revenue officer would find the least difficulty in 

 getting all that was necessary done with the entire 

 good will of the people, and at really no cost to them 

 or the State. There are several periods in the year 

 when every cultivator can give half a day's labour 

 daily at no loss to himself, and when, if not helping 

 at the communal enclosure, he would be idling. 



And there are no people in the world that can be 

 more easily led by an intelligent superior into combin- 

 ing to carry out a single work (the benefit of which 

 they understand) under his eye ; a few turbans given 

 away and a few sweetmeats would convert the entire 

 business into a sort of festival. Here once let it be 

 clearly understood that the enclosure would be pre- 

 served during the cold season, and (after the first five 

 years) thrown open to cattle in the hot season, and 

 every man will appreciate and approve them. 



In Mhairwarra, for forest purposes. Government 

 took up large reserves. The measure, though neces- 

 sary, was a very unpopular one. Last year when the 

 country suffered from drought, and the starvation of 

 their cattle stared the people in the face, these re- 

 serves were thrown open to them. Forest conservancy 

 was a little thrown back, but the people are no longer 

 opposed to it; on the contrary, they quite appre- 

 ciate it. 



As to lohat should be planted, hardy indigenous 

 trees merely for shade, trees furnishing fruits for 



