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cultural condition of this Province than training a dozen 

 University graduates annually who will probably give up all 

 connection with agriculture in disgust if they fail to secure 

 Government appointments. It is by the spread of agricultural 

 education mainly and not by reduction of revenue demand or 

 opening of agricultural banks that the question of famine 

 must be met. There is no occasion for the raiyat to starve 

 when there is a shorter rainfall, but the raiyat does not 

 luiow how he can help himself. He must be taught. So 

 while a class has been established in Bengal for higher train- 

 ing in agriculture given to a few University graduates and 

 engineers or surveyors with the object of employing them 

 as Government officers in certain special capacities in which 

 agricultural knowledge is needed, it must not be forgot that 

 the more important scheme, of giving a thoroughly practical 

 agricultural training in a properly equipped farm, to the 

 actual cultivator, is yet to follow. 



