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will venture here to mention a few points where I see the best chance of 
mene nts being effec 
nost important point is that the Rowa should be dibbled out as 
early as T ible. iis is in general not done; the rain comes, and by 
the mi Pes of July the cat ator us his field but the plants for dibbling 
are not ready ; a month or eeks later often he cultivates his field 
over again and dibbles it. Ones reason of this is the deep-seated Bengalee 
prineiple never to do to- Su what = pa be put off till to-morrow, 
and to do everything incompletely ; he says, “it is not quite as it should 
* be, Sahib, but it will aet p vi "p he real diffieulty in intro- 
w no Sor Kiss rice that was dibbled between Ist August 
f rd rice; while if the rain stops between Ist and 15th October the 
forward rice gives nevertheless an excellent crop. Many of the simple 
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due to their Lai Sie in dibbling; but I have never spent a whole 
season among these peoples. 
difficulty i is dutéünisted, itis true, in dibbling rice in Bengal c 
the uncertainty of foreseeing the exact time when the land will 
ready for r dibbling, so that it is impossible to raise the seed-bed to fit; 
the rice must be a certain length for dibbling and cannot stand over 
long in the seed bed, so that the native eultivator plants his seed bed in 
fair average time; rather late than otherwise. It thus often happens 
that the field is wet enough for tilth before the seed bed is ready for 
dibbling ; and in one season I saw in Burdwan the water came so late 
that. the seed-bed rice = seriously injured (and some dead) before it 
could be dibbled and a defic nr. es the. Burdwan a ensued. But 
this difficulty could surely be met by some combination among the 
cultivators to have a series of paras * to follow in succession," 
RAILWAYS AND TANKs. 
For the increase of the gross rice produce in Bengal Seat s= ba pan 
unication 
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margin o the eae Sina would be made to grow rice, if com- 
munications gave a good market. Also irrigation tanks could be largely 
increased in ‘Chota Nag fiore where the long gradual slopes at the head- 
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of the valleys lend themselves to such. -Communications in Bengal 
tion of European enterprise, for no well-educated Bengalee wishes to 
live in the wilderness; and the o ing of a railway produces a line of 
schools, where before, at great direct cost to Government in paying 
ones "teachers, no satisfactory schools could be kept. 
Whatever is to be taught the Bengalee cultivator must be taught by 
example. It is no use whatever to “lecture him; it is absurd to expect 
him to adopt a new, outlandish, and troablesonie process unless you 
show him clearly t at it is remunerative. You must therefore have 
model farms in central, accessible situations where this can be shown, 
