HAPPY INDIA 



population engaged in agriculture Small production 

 of grain per acre William Digby says in the year 1899- 

 1900 the average income of the working classes equalled 

 a halfpenny a day for each man, woman and child In 

 years of scarcity numbers die Digby blames Govern- 

 ment Mismanagement Excessive taxes Drain of 

 30,000,000 to Britain An engineer finds it difficult 

 to accept this view without qualifications. 



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Criticisms useless, unless remedies suggested In India 

 dung of cattle used as fuel, not as manure Soil impover- 

 ished, wheat crops of 400 Ib. per acre Is produce fairly 

 divided between cultivator, landowner, money-lender, 

 revenue ? The cultivators have no other fuel, there 

 being no wood Gujarat exception Plantations for fire- 

 wood required Himalayan forests could supply wood, 

 collieries could supply coal British honour involved. 



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Mercator's projection misleading for landsmen Enor- 

 mous area of India Forest area, possibility of forest 

 supplies of fuel Enormous profit resulting Railway 

 and motor lorry conveyance Government has no capital, 

 must borrow to make roads and railways necessary for 

 full use of forests Coal supplies possible Weight of 

 cowdung burnt and of wood or coal required as substi- 

 tute Growth of timber in plantations Enormous profits 

 from resulting increase of crops Reafforestation Etawah 

 district of United Provinces Some statistics of forests 

 Table I. 



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Afforestation Lowering the level of the Jumna Benskin, 

 Trowscoed, Elsworth Huntingdon Cost of afforestation 

 at Etawah Benefits resulting from afforestation 

 Forests cut down and burnt down to make room for culti- 

 vation ; burnt down accidentally Destruction of forests, 



