cannot now result in famines in that country. The following 

 among other reasons may be ascribed for this immunity: (i) 

 The produce per acre is much larger in England. (2) The 

 population does not depend upon agriculture solely for sub- 

 sistence as commercial and manufacturing pursuits have 

 increased the wealth of England to such an extent that unless 

 all means of communication by sea with foreign countries can 

 be stopped, there is no possibility of food becoming scarce 

 in that country. (3) The superabundance of food produce in 

 one part or other of the vast Empire can always supply the 

 deficient produce of England. England in fact, is not able 

 now to produce the food she requires for her consumption. 

 But she need not depend upon foreign countries at all : her 

 own possessions in other parts of the world making her quite 

 independent in this respect, though as a matter of fact England 

 still imports a good deal of wheat from Russia, France and the 

 United States of America. (4) Emigration to other countries 

 is another means whereby England has maintained her posi- 

 tion as a wealthy country notwithstanding the great stress 

 of population. As population of India is getting alarmingly 

 large, it is by the fourfold means noted in the case of Eng- 

 land that India must also learn in the near future to keep her- 

 self above want in the matter of food supply : 'i) She must 

 learn better methods of cultivation whereby the produce of 

 land may be enhanced. (2) She must direct her attention to 

 commerce and manufacture, whereby stress on land will be 

 lightened. (3) She must learn to import food stuffs from those 

 parts of the Empire where meat and corn are produced 

 excessively cheap, as soon as famine becomes certain. (4) 

 She must learn to send out her superfluous population volun- 

 tarily and willingly to those parts of the Empire. The 

 stress of population, in normal years, is not yet felt in India 

 because the allotment of 3 acres per individual of population 

 is quite sufficient. But where cultivators readily convert 

 their surplus food into cash in a good year, and where this 

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