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CHAPTER CXLIII. 



MEASURES OF PROTECTION AND REWEF. 



T EGISLATIVE measures. It is not impossible for 

 Government to help the cultivator by legislative methods. 

 (i) The exportation of new rice may be prohibited. This may 

 have the effect of cultivators, zemindars, mahajans, and grain 

 dealers holding large stocks of grain until the next season's 

 prospects are certainly known. It is not difficult to distin- 

 guish between old and new rice and the prohibition can be 

 easily enforced. (2) The export of bones and oil-seeds 

 (not oils) may be prohibited. (3) The minimum proportion 

 between land revenue and rent may be fixed for ever. (4> All 

 cultivating raiyats may be compelled by law to maintain 

 one food or fodder yielding tree per acre of land he holds, 

 the list of such trees being published from time to time and 

 nurseries maintained in connection with District Engineers' 

 offices and inspection bunglows, whence planting from road, 

 river and canal sides may also proceed systematically. 

 (5) Each Village Union may be compelled to maintain a con- 

 servancy establishment, and allotted fields for burial of dead 

 animals, night soil and other refuse matter, where trees 

 yielding food and fodder may be systematically grown, and 

 fuel and fodder sold from this miniature forest after 10 years' 

 growth. This is a modification of Dr. Voelcker's recommenda- 

 tion regarding propagation of fuel and fodder reserves. 



1,448. Departmental measures. The agricultural Depart- 

 ment may teach raiyats how to store grain, by having stores 

 of superior varieties of seed at certain recognised centres for 

 sale to raiyats. One variety of seed may yield twice as 

 much as another variety, all other circumstances remaining 

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