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could move easily over the sandy village tracks, will 

 have to be devised. These will have to be sent round 

 from village to village, crushing for each community 

 their, at present, useless heaps. The people will have 

 to be taught how, when, in what doses, and for what 

 crops, to administer this powerful fertiliser, and how 

 to increase the rapidity of its action by treating it 

 with sulphuric acid, which latter will have to be loaned 

 to them as an advance. 



There are districts where it will probably be found 

 necessary to manufacture manures outright, and 

 advance them to the cultivators, as any other advance 

 is made, until, their pecuniary value established and a 

 permanent demand created, private enterprise steps 



in to supply it. . * . . 



And of course careful analyses of soils (which in 

 India are wonderfully homogeneous over wide areas) 

 would be necessary to indicate with precision the 

 nature of the plant food more especially wanting in 

 each case, whether with reference to a particular soil 

 or a particular crop ; but these are among the neces- 

 sities of scientific agriculture everywhere; there is 

 nothing in regard to them peculiar to India; and, 

 with many other similar matters, they need no special 

 notice here. 



Although with diminished mortality and improved 

 condition of cattle, the agricultural capital of the 

 country will be, as time runs on, notably increased, it 

 would be idle to suppose that the generally im- 

 poverished condition of the actual cultivators of the 



