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then by hydraulic presses he produces solid lumps 

 of about i cwt. each. The weevils and their eggs 

 are killed by the heat, and mice and rats cannot 

 bite it. If this patent proves successful, it provides 

 a suitable means of storage which would enable the 

 people to live comfortably during a season or several 

 seasons one after the other when there was. a failure 

 or partial failure of the rain, instead of tile present 

 miserable system of starvation or 'semi-star vatic'n 

 in consequence of the horrible system under which 

 they now live, which also entails the starvation of 

 the cattle. Some of the extra production would be 

 exported, with which they could buy luxuries and 

 necessaries of various kinds, and some of the money 

 received would be available for public works of all 

 sorts, including large hydraulic power installations 

 and other works of great value. 



On the other hand, it is quite possible that there 

 will be a less area of land cultivated, unless the in- 

 crease of population would require a greater amount 

 of food than is required by the present population. 



With the increased production of the soil the cattle 

 will be better fed, their number increased 50 per 

 cent., and during the hot dry season there would 

 be better shelters in forests and plantations, and 

 their labour would be more effective in every kind of 

 work. And as a consequence of the extra production 

 of food all other kinds of work would be stimu- 

 lated, mines, manufactures of every sort, and India 

 might become what perhaps it has never really been 

 at any previous period, a wealthy country. 



