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position as landlord, suffers by the present mode of 

 cultivation, which takes away from the soil and gives 

 nothing back, Increasing impoverishment the conse- 

 quence. The necessity of teaching the ryot how to do 

 better and improve agriculture. The futile attempts of 

 Government to effect this. 



Evidence of the gradual diminishing outturn of the Indian 

 soil. The Ayeen Akbary, and its statistics of the average 

 produce of India. Comparison with the present outturn. 

 Alarming declension in full concord with the laws of 

 husbandry. Special mention of the gradual decline of the 

 outturn of cotton in the Broach zillah, the figures being 

 given by the Ayeen Akbary, Colonel Monier Williams, 

 Dr. Burn, Mr. Rivett-Carnac, and others. The necessity of 

 acting in accordance with the Principles of Rational 

 Agriculture if the example is to be avoided of the foolish 

 husbandman who expected to reap where he had not sown. 

 Comparison between the results of European and Indian 

 agriculture. Comparison between the condition of the 

 European farmer and the Indian ryot. Their respective 

 conditions with reference to the relative outturn of the 

 soil. The poverty of the Indian ryot and the deficiency 

 of food. India's necessity, the development of all her 

 agricultural resources. The means to accomplish this. 

 Irrigation and manure will increase the outturn fourfold. 

 The advisability of beginning at the root of the evil : 

 the ignorance of the husbandman. Advice and instruc- 

 tion to be given to the most intelligent farmer of each 

 village. Also guarantee to make good all losses resulting 

 from his adopting the style of cultivation recommended, 

 and from using manures whose effects are unknown to 

 him. Annual prizes for the largest outturn and for 

 superior produce. Circulation of pamphlets in the verna- 

 culars. Experimental farms to improve the staple products 

 of the district, to select and distribute superior seed, and 

 to obtain statistics. The results of the experimental 

 farms to be made widely known among the agricultural 

 classes. Criticism upon the model-farms in the Bombay 



