TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Preface vii 



CHAPTER 1. 



The Criterion op Agricultural Progress . . • . . 1 

 Prosperity and progress. Percentage of profit. Outturn of 

 produce. Trade movements. Provision of food supply. 

 Condition of the peasantry. Land values. Other indi- 

 cations of progress. 



CHAPTER II. 



Agricultural Progress in other Countries .... 7 



Denmark : Economic reforms. The machinery for rural de- 

 velopment. Technical progress. Germany: Economic 

 reforms. The machinery for rural development. Tech- 

 nical progress. England : Economic reforms in the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. United States 

 of America : Technical progress. Hawaii, Formosa 

 and Java : Rapid progress secured by capitalising 

 agriculture. 



CHAPTER III. 



Indications op Progress in Western India .... 41 



Crop Outturns. Trade movements. Increase in cultivation. 

 Land values and rentals. Prices. Irrigation. Land 

 improvement. Technique. Spending capacity of the 

 population. Effects of crop failure. Estimate of 

 progress. 



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