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In many of the tracts where famine has raged, a 

 thorough reboisement, with improvement in cattle, 

 and an abundant supply of manure would admit of 

 deep ploughing, such that, with a large portion of the 

 surface protected by trees, no total failure of the crops 

 could result from the failure of a single monsoon. 



It is needless, however, to pursue the subject into 

 all its details ; my object merely is to convey some 

 general conception of the scheme which, the more it 

 is considered, the more pregnant it will prove of direct 

 and indirect benefits to agriculture in India. 



Although all that has been urged in regard to whole- 

 sale reboisement is applicable to, perhaps, the major 

 portion of the temporarily settled districts, no one 

 rule holds good, and no one scheme can suffice for the 

 whole of this vast empire. There are regions as large 

 as the British Isles, where no reboisement is requisite, 

 and where altogether different arrangements in regard 

 to supply of manure are needed, where we have chiefly 

 to teach the people more care in collecting it, more 

 care in storing it, resort to available mineral manures, 

 of the value of which they have little or no conception, 

 and the like. 



Again, farm-yard manure, though I have laid so 

 much stress on it, as it really contains everything that 

 we take out of the land, is not the only organic manure 

 readily available to which the Agricultural Department 

 will have to direct attention. Outside each village is 

 a golgotha, where the bones of all cattle and animals 

 that die whiten and slowly decay in ghastly piles. At 

 present this enormous supply of phosphates is abso- 

 lutely wasted. Heally portable bone-crushers, that 



