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the grazing by sheltering it from drying winds, partly 

 for wood for building and firewood, but mainly for the 

 supply of that great want in the plains of India, a 

 sufficiency of leaves, which, by being used as bedding for 

 cattle, would absorb the most valuable constituents of the 

 manure, and especially of that liquid portion of it which 

 is now entirely lost. 



" One word more. It is grievous to see how much we 

 have failed to accomplish in India owing to the fact of 

 our officials knowing nothing about agriculture. Take 

 Mysore for instance. We have governed it for about 

 43 years, and, if some of our most intelligent Scotch 

 factors acting, of course, in conjunction with the advice 

 and co-operation of the most able natives in the country 

 had been employed and allowed to have their way, the 

 whole face of the country might now have been altered, 

 and its climate largely modified for the better. At a 

 very trifling expense it might have been studded with 

 woods and plantations, its manurial resources and grazing 

 capabilities largely increased, and its agricultural area 

 kept well and evenly within the bounds of its manurial 

 resources. Does any proprietor here allow moor and 

 grazing-land to be enclosed and broken up without seeing 

 that suitable plantations are formed both for wood and 

 shelter, that the cultivator has the means of doing it 

 justice, and that such restrictions are imposed as will 

 fairly protect him from having his land run out and 

 utterly destroyed ? Why, then, should the greatest landed 

 proprietor in the world Her Majesty the Queen have 

 her Indian estates managed on principles exactly at 

 variance with those which are generally accepted here ? 



Obediently yours, 

 Clifton Park, Keho." ROBERT H. ELLIOT. 



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