74 THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



this reason they have proved themselves of use in Texas 

 and other southern states, being crossed with our west- 

 ern breeds. 



The Bikanir camels are said to be the finest in the 

 world. The great help that the Bikanir Camel Corps 

 gave in defending the Suez Canal and in pursuing the 

 retreating Turks is a glorious chapter in the history of 

 the Great War. The Bikanir sheep is one of the finest- 

 wooled sheep known and is worth studying and develop- 

 ing. India is a land that has millions of goats. Some 

 of these give as high as eight pounds of milk a day. 

 Some of them give actually more milk than many of the 

 cows. 



The cattle problem of India cannot be solved until 

 there is an adequate veterinary force with power to stamp 

 out disease as was done in the Philippines. We must 

 not forget however and disregard the fact that in the 

 Philippines it was infinitely easier because there were a 

 number of islands and segregation was easy, while India 

 is a great continent and thus almost impossible to isolate 

 and segregate. The bigness of the problem however is 

 no reason why it should not be tackled. The longer the 

 delay the greater the progressive economic loss to India. 



It was seeing the importance of the cattle as the power 

 of India that led me to make my first serious agricultural 

 study the means to safe-guard this power. I came to 

 the conclusion that the silo was the best single means. 

 During the normal rains in India enormous quantities of 

 fodder grasses grow, both cultivated and wild. If at 

 this time earthen silo pits could be dug and filled with 

 these grasses it would keep for years. These pits would 

 be a fodder bank. If when the time of scarcity came this 

 fodder bank could be drawn upon, millions of cattle that 

 are now lost could be saved. Here again ignorance and 



