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Including these cities there are only seventy-five towns 

 and cities with over fifty thousand population each. 

 Men trained as farmers will do their work and earn 

 their living among their own people in the villages. 

 Each properly trained farmer will be as a light on a 

 hill to all the ordinary village farmers. He will use and 

 introduce the better seed, methods and implements. 

 When his neighbors see the better yields his practices 

 will be noted and copied by them. This will raise the 

 yield of the crops and the standard of living for all. I 

 believe this is the quickest way to reach the whole of 

 India helpfully, naturally and economically. 



10. India needs roads, railroads, canals, schools, col- 

 leges, libraries, and hospitals. Sixty-two per cent, of 

 the people of India are beyond the reach of any medical 

 aid whatsoever. India is so poor that she cannot in her 

 present condition provide the capital for a large part, 

 much less, for all of these things. Such blessings are not 

 going to be given to her as an act of charity by any other 

 people. If she ever gets them it will be by her own ef- 

 forts. The only possible place that I can see that she 

 can get them is from the first foot of her own soil, prop- 

 erly tilled. By the present old fashioned and inefficient 

 methods, India out of one of the richest soils on the earth 

 has the smallest yield per acre or per man of any civil- 

 ized country. So the rapid introduction of better farm- 

 ing is the most natural and easy method of giving to 



