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balance of the proceeds due to them. Patience will be 

 required at first, also pressure at times from headquarters, 

 to get the local committees formed, but once a start is 

 made and tiie natives see more money, quickly paid, 

 coming in, surely the wish to do likewise will become 

 infectious and spread over the country. 



No one can sit up and say what is best to do in any 

 particular area in such a vast country as India. One can 

 only broadly outline a scheme and leave it to local experts 

 to arrange the details. If no local experts exist, they 

 must be found or trained and put there, otherwise nothing 

 can be done. With so many schools and training colleges, 

 such men should soon be forthcoming, especially if steps 

 be taken at once to start the ball rolling. 



I believe that I am right in saying that the sugar world 

 generally has always been ready and eager to give India 

 full credit for what she had done in the way of trying to 

 place her sugar industry on a higher plane generally than 

 she has hitherto been able to claim, and they will be 

 equally ready to praise her as she further progresses step 

 by step. " In Southern India," reported the Louisiana 

 Planter, " the sugar-cane grows to splendid proportions, 

 showing as it does, the adaptation of such crops to the 

 land, thanks to the fertility of the soil and the suitability 

 of the climate for the industry." If this is true of Southern 

 India, the lands up north seem still more promising for, 

 continues this leading American authority, " The more 

 northerly provinces in India are said to produce far more 

 sugar as a total production than is done in Southern India. 

 This leads us to believe that not many yeaTs hence there 

 will be a speedy interest excited in the production of cane 

 sugar in India." 



Our Eastern Empire cannot therefore pretend that she 

 has not the eye of the outer world on her, and by no 

 means a jealous or envious eye, but one that expresses 

 nothing but goodwill and anxiety to see her go ahead and 

 prosper. All the more shame to her, therefore, both to 

 rulers and ruled, if she cannot find a way out of her 

 present morass of difficulties and indifference, and giving 

 herself a good shake, wake up and start putting the whole 

 industry in order. A tiiorough reorganization based on 

 carefully thought out plans must be evolved, and those 

 working out the scheme must ever keep their eyes on the 

 best centres, not only in India but elsewhere. Having 

 done so they must then arrange to copy their plans, make 

 trials with their most successful varieties of canes, and 



