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opportunity. While at Etawah visits were paid to Udi and to 

 Lakhna, so that those members who were unacquainted with the 

 tract might be enabled to examine representative blocks of ravine 

 country presenting markedly different oharacteristics. 



3. The following formed the Committee : 



The Hon'ble Mr. D. 0. Baillie, o.s.1., i.o.s., Senior Member, 



Board of Be venue. 

 The Hon'ble Mr. F. W. Brownrigg, Commissioner, Allahabad 



division. 



Mr. P. H. Clutterbuck, Conservator of Forests, Eastern circle. 

 . H. K. Gracey, i.o.s., Collector of Farrukhabad. 

 E. A. Phelps, i.o.s , Collector of Jalaun. 

 ,, H. E. Nevill, I.G.S., Collector of Etawah. 

 E. S. Liddiard, i.c.s., Settlement Officer of Etawah. 

 , W. C. Cooper, Executive Engineer, Etawah division, 



Lower Ganges Canal. 



C. W. Wilson, Superintendent, Civil Veterinary depart- 

 ment. 



., B. C. Burt, Deputy Director of Agriculture. 

 E. A. Courbhope, Deputy Conservator of Forests. 

 Captain G. W. Mellor, I.A., Assistant Director of Grass 



Farms, VII division. 



The Hon'ble Raja Kushal Pal Singh of Kotla. 

 Raja Partab Singh of Malhajini- 

 Rao Raghubar Singh Bahadur of Bidhupura. 

 Kunwar Kanmohau Singh of Bangra, district Jalaun. 



4. The Committee sat at Etawah on the 21st and 22nd 

 of July, 1913, the Hon'ble Mr. Baillie being Chairman and 

 Mr. Nevill, Secretary. All the members were present throughout 

 the proceedings. 



5. The first question for discussion was the need for action, 

 that is to say, whether in the opinion of the Committee the exist- 

 ing system of management in the matter of grazing and the pro- 

 vision of fuel stood in need of amendment. On this point the 

 Committee were unanimous. It has been clearly shown that giaz- 

 ing and felling of wood for fuel are conducted on no system what- 

 ever, with the result that the ravines in ordinary years yield the 

 absolute minimum and in times of famine the produce is practi- 

 cally nothing. It was acknowledged that in years of drought the 

 population and the number of cattle decrease, markedly and im- 

 mediately, to the extent of at least 30 per cent., while the remainder 

 of the cattle find subsistence for the time being by moving into 

 other areas. Not only is tbe standing crop of grass wholly inade- 

 quate to the requirements of the people in times of stress, but the 



