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science in Europe, but by the application of tbe prin- 

 ciples on which those results are based to the widely 

 different conditions and requirements of this country. 

 Of these, the people who pester Government to pur- 

 chase grand combined steam ploughing, reaping and 

 threshing machines for the ryots here, seem to have 

 about as accurate a conception as a certain Maha- 

 rajah, who was with difficulty dissuaded from sending 

 home an elephant to an old pensioner at Bayswater 

 (who complained of being no longer able to get about 

 on foot and being too poor to keep a conveyance), had 

 of those of our London suburbs. 



Perhaps next to ploughs, in regard to which Mr. 

 Buck has already done something (and if we had half 

 a dozen provincial Directors, each aided by proper 

 mechanical engineers, and each improving on the im- 

 provements of his neighbours, we should soon get the 

 very thing wanted), next we say to ploughs, no me- 

 chanical appliances will more emphatically demand the 

 study of the Department than those for raising water 

 by wind-power. Assuming, as we may, that as the 

 Agricultural Department obtains a real hold upon the 

 country, high-level canals rendering subsoil drainage 

 impossible, and involving the gradual sterilisation of 

 the soil, wherever this is at all appreciably impreg- 

 nated with saline substances, will become things of 

 the past, and assuming, too, that irrigation on a 

 rational system will be largely developed, the import- 

 ance of cheap and efficient contrivances for raising 

 water becomes obvious. 



And for cheapness, in a country like India where, 

 over whole provinces, winds blow with almost the re- 



