OUTTUENS ON GOVEENMENT FAEMS 105 



In 1917 the Principal of the Poona Agricultural 

 College and some of his assistants made a careful 

 estimate of the average returns obtained by cultivators 

 in a typical village near Poona. The following table 

 shows how these returns compare with the average 

 returns for five years obtained on the Poona College 

 farm under similar physical conditions : — 



On the Government farm the results were obtained 

 by good cultivation, adequate manure, timely opera- 

 tions and sound seed on a compact area upon which 

 some protection from surface washing was afforded. 

 In the village the results were obtained by poor 

 agricultural practice on fragmented and unimproved 

 holdings, and through the agency of cultivators many 

 of whom relied on agriculture only as a secondary 

 means of livelihood. The figures show that in the 

 one case the outturns were more than double those 

 in the other case. 



So much for the present possibilities of the situa- 

 tion. We will now briefly consider what technical 



