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clear to him that a certain improvement has to 

 be made, he makes it forthwith. The unsuccessful 

 business man delays until it is too late. I would 

 therefore suggest that the Indian Government should 

 proceed at once to arrange for the supply of 

 1,000,000 worth of artificial manures in the course 

 of the following year, for the expenditure of 1,000,000 

 a year on plantations to supply fuel to the cultivators ; 

 that it should spend 1,000,000 a year on afforestation 

 as distinct from these special plantations for fuel ; 

 should spend another 1,000,000 a year on additional 

 branch railways and on roads to facilitate the trans- 

 port of timber from the existing forests to the places 

 where it is required. This can go steadily on, and 

 the returns will begin to come in in twelve months' 

 time from the beginning, and in two years' time 

 the returns will begin to come rapidly in, and after 

 that, the quicker the Government proceeds with the 

 work the handsomer will be the return that it will 

 get. With regard to the very large schemes of 

 afforestation and of railway constructions that I 

 have suggested, I would suggest that the Government 

 takes expert advice on these points and ascertains 

 really what the cost would be of these various works, 

 but this is not to delay the immediate starting of 

 the smaller works above suggested. This expendi- 

 ture on work and material, evidently for the immediate 

 good of the people, will have a tendency to give 

 satisfaction to many of the people ; it will give profit- 

 able employment to great numbers and tend to 

 improve trade. 



