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could be spared had gone to the front and those that re- 

 mained were carrying double burdens. Under the cir- 

 cumstances he said that it would not be fair to ask the 

 British for an officer. Finally he said, * ' You have drawn 

 up the scheme, why don't you carry it out?" I said 

 there were serious objections as I was a Christian mis- 

 sionary and being a director of agriculture was hardly 

 in line with my work. The Maharajah told me that he 

 had cabled to our Missionary Board in New York ask- 

 ing them if they would allow me to act as Director of 

 Agriculture for him and the answer he had received was, 

 that if the mission, to which I belonged, and I personally 

 were willing, the Board had no objection. Facing me 

 with this he said, ''Now j^our objections are removed, so 

 resign from the mission and give your whole time to my 

 state.'' I pointed out that owing to the war our Insti- 

 tute had also suffered, that we were short handed and 

 heavily in debt and I had obligations to Allahabad that 

 I could not possibly throw off on somebody else, so we 

 finally agreed that one of my colleagues, an Agricultural 

 Engineer, and I, as Director, were each to give eleven 

 weeks each year of our time to work in the state. For 

 this service the Maharajah paid the college over seven 

 thousand dollars a year, none of which we touched per- 

 sonally. He then provided us with traveling expenses 

 in the state and with a budget and equipment to do our 

 work. In addition to an office staff I was given a motor 

 and adequate tent equipage to travel over the state. 

 The Agricultural Engineer was given funds for agricul- 

 ture machinery, for a work-shop, show-room and an ex- 

 perimental laboratory for farm machinery. The budget 

 sanctioned was most carefully drawn up and while not 

 allowing for any extravagances was adequate to enable a 



