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can be of the greatest service to India. America in the 

 South, among the negroes and poor whites, had a prob- 

 lem similar to, though not so large as, that of India. 

 In the Southern United States the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion went in and studied conditions. It discovered 

 remedies and published the results in the "General Edu- 

 cation Board's Report of the Rockefeller Foundation." 

 The Foundation was kind enough to let me have five 

 hundred copies of this valuable document. These were 

 distributed widely to Government officials, prominent 

 Indians and missionaries. Not a little credit for the 

 wonderful forward strides taken in the last four years 

 in India is due to this American literature. 



This literature describes the functions of the farm 

 demonstrator and county adviser. It shows how these 

 trained men went to the debt-laden, hopeless farmer of 

 the South and showed him on his own land, with his own 

 labor, how to grow crops which surprised the farmer him- 

 self, put him out of debt and brought new hope to him. 



If America can give to India a few missionary insti- 

 tutions like Hampton or Tuskegee, co-educational, prop- 

 erly staffed with enough adequately trained Americans, 

 she will do India an inestimable service. In such insti- 

 tutions some Indians can be trained to farm their own 

 land for a much larger profit than they now get per 

 acre, other men can be trained as demonstrators to go 

 to the debt-laden, hopeless and despondent Indian 

 farmer, and further, the right kind of teacher can be 

 trained for the rural schools. The demonstrator proves 

 to the cultivator that "book farming" is profitable. 

 As a result the farmer wants his children educated, and, 

 as a result of his larger crops, he is able to pay for his 

 children's education. Great Britain does not have the 



