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husbandman, and expect to reap where we have not 

 sown. If due consideration is accorded to the facts 

 and figures I have adduced, there will hardly be 

 any further proof needed to support the charge of 

 reckless cultivation. 



If we now compare the results of European 

 Agriculture with the yield of the once fertile soil of 

 India, we can hardly be surprised at the wretched 

 condition of the Indian ryot. In Bavaria, in Italy 

 near Piedmont, in the Lombardy plains of the Po 

 Yalley, where rice is cultivated, the yield is on the 

 average 2,500 Ibs. per acre, while in this Presidency 

 it is only 700 to 800 Ibs. ! The average yield of 

 wheat in Europe is 1,500 Ibs. per acre, while the 

 average in India is 660 Ibs. ; 200 Ibs. of cleaned 

 cotton are picked from an acre in America, 300 to 

 400 Ibs. in Egypt, while in India we get an 

 average of 52 Ibs. ! We can understand, then, by 

 what means the farmer of Europe and America is 

 enabled to live in comparative opulence, while the 

 ryot of India is compelled to vegetate in squalid 

 poverty, his implements of the rudest possible 

 description, and his cattle pitiful specimens of a 

 gradual degeneration. Starved is the soil, starved 

 is the tiller of the land, starved are his cattle. 

 The soil craves for food, and man and beast likewise 

 crave for food. 



Mr. C. A. Elliot, Settlement Officer, N. W. P., 

 expresses himself very strongly on the miserable 



