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which has been adopted in connection with these 

 model-farms. When a superintendent is appointed 

 over a farm, he is carefully impressed with an idea 

 of the paramount importance of making it support 

 itself. That is considered the chief object, and the 

 only indication of the indubitable success of a farm. 

 What possible good, may I .ask, can be expected 

 under such a system ? The chief duty of superin- 

 tendents ought, manifestly, rather to consist in 

 raising native agriculture in their districts to 

 the highest standard possible, the expenditure 

 incurred in doing so being willingly borne by the 

 State. The Agricultural Department of the small 

 State of Prussia spends yearly the equivalent of 

 nearly six lakhs of rupees, exclusive of salaries 

 and the cost of administration, solely for agricul- 

 tural purposes ; and never surely was the public 

 money employed in a better object. It is my 

 opinion, however, that Government, single-handed, 

 will be unable to accomplish much for the advance- 

 ment of Indian Agriculture, but that our first step 

 must be the establishment of an Agricultural Society, 

 composed of members sincere and zealous in their 

 aims, and who recognise fully the importance of 

 the work to be undertaken. 



