f 6 ] 



cocoon-rearers. It is these latter alone who are carrying out 

 the new methods with profit, while all the educated men who 

 have gone in for it have lost money. 



8. Capitalists and educated men can derive profit from 

 agricultural pursuit by acting as middlemen, finding land, 

 seed, manure and appliances for cultivators, and using their 

 labour and their cattle and sharing with them the profits. Cul- 

 tivation by partnership is indeed a well-recognised system in 

 Bengal, and, if trained agriculturists go in for it largely, this 

 system may prove to be of the highest benefit in introducing 

 superior staples and superior methods of cultivation. One has, 

 say, 500 bighas of land. He gets some cultivators of the 

 neighbourhood to go in partnership with him and to give him 

 half the produce. He gives them seed, well-selected and 

 of superior kinds ; he finds them superior appliances for irriga- 

 tion, hoeing, thrashing and winnowing ; he buys for them 

 manures, and he takes half the crop for himself. He knows 

 how to store his crop secure against insects, and he sells it 

 for seed again at twice the price at which he would have sold 

 his crop at harvest time. This would be an improvement 

 over the ordinary system of cultivation by partnership. 



9. Then by the employment of capital one can compete 

 successfully with cultivators in such agricultural, or rather in- 

 dustrial pursuits, as require large outlay at the start. Two 

 graduates of Saidapet College are making large profits by 

 starting dairies. The manufacture of cheese, butter and ghi, 

 with appliances that cannot be ordinarily purchased by culti* 

 vators, would prove remunerative to a man with a capital- 

 Fruitfarming also would probably pay well, if the fruits could 

 be preserved by dessication or crystallization. Fruits and 

 vegetables can be preserved by a rapid process of dessication. 

 This is an industry which, properly developed, may have an 

 important future before it. The abundance of one year can be 

 preserved from rotting for consumption in another year. 



10. But some of the students of the agricultural classes will 



