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There will not be a single man of them who will not 

 have a more valuable holding than he previously had, 

 and better facilities for raising crops and making a 

 living. The scheme would certainly involve a com- 

 pulsory change in the circumstances of each man ; 

 but such changes are a condition of progress. 



At present on the perennial sections of the canals 

 the profits and losses are distributed most inequitably. 

 One man has his fortune made for him, another man 

 is ruined. One man finds that the value of his holding 

 has increased tenfold, while another man finds that 

 his holding is completely water-logged, and rendered 

 useless for any purpose. Under the proposed scheme 

 all will share alike, and all will get real value out of 

 the change. 



The merits of the proposed scheme may be summed 

 up as follows : The canal areas will be properly de- 

 veloped and the water used to the best advantage. 

 High-class cane cultivation will be possible, and from 

 it the indirect benefits claimed for beet cultivation 

 in Germany (vide p. 20) will be derived. A profit- 

 able sugar industry' will be created, and the canals 

 will be made to pay. 



A choice has to be made between something of this 

 nature and the existing chaos ; but it is safe to pre- 

 dict that, for financial reasons, canal construction 

 will not progress rapidly under conditions in which the 

 canals fail to support themselves, and the cultivator 

 of Gujarat has to pay for the waste and unskilful 



