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the grain and rice, 70,804,000 tons, and adding 

 2,500,000 tons for fruit and vegetables, and 

 3,000,000 tons for sugar, I get a total weight of 

 76,304,000 tons. Deducting from this, 3,000,000 tons 

 for exports, it leaves 73,304,000 tons for consump- 

 tion. This divided by 247,000,000 people in that 

 part of India which is directly governed by the British, 

 gives a weight of 665 Ib. for each person in a year, 

 if Ib. (1-82 Ib.) per head per diem. If we take a 

 family consisting of five persons, that would give 

 9 Ib. for the family. These five persons we will 

 consider as one working man, one working woman, 

 one old person and two children, and the allowance 

 would be, one working man 2 Ib., one working 

 woman i| Ib., i| Ib. per head for the old person 

 and two children, leaving if Ib. over for domestic 

 animals. To this amount must be added some 

 milk and flesh from the cattle, sheep, goats, etc., 

 also eggs, poultry, and fish, perhaps also some 

 ground-nuts, but on the OTHER HAND THERE 



MUST BE DEDUCTED FROM THESE FIGURES THE 

 AMOUNT OF GRAIN CONSUMED BY THE CATTLE, of 



which there are nearly as many as human beings 

 that is to say, about 209,000,000 altogether, large 

 and small, equivalent to about 170,000,000 oxen. 

 This is without counting poultry, etc. There can 

 be no doubt that these animals require some richer 

 food additional to the fodder crops, to grass, leaves, 

 straw, corn-stalks, roots, cotton seeds, rape seeds, 

 husks, chaff, etc. 

 There can be little doubt that in addition they 



