duis with | the ludis Office e No. 238 of 270i Heimar 1890, addressed ; 
toy 
The correspondence opens with a letter from Messrs, J. Tráve eh of. ae 
‘London, referring mainly to the processes of manufacture (of which I pai 
" now nothing), but the eine collected in Indis proves that the ——— 
h local p of the cane in India is the main reason that India m 
 eaniot ETEN With Mantitius and the West Indies in exporting sugar. me 
So that the problem is almost purely agricultural. ES 
Phe important letter is that of f Mr. Goodridge, who caine the Lie 
ect in Nagpore, but who does not know the circumstances in the , 
r more important province of Bengal. Mr. Goodridge y for 
instance, that in the West Indies and Mauritius they bave 40 to 57 
"dapes c of. rain per annum well spread, and that in India the cane 
requires irrigation Nr ihe ^ ovem is so much less. 
This is true of Nagpo f it) ; and = Nit eie e 
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yw in all Bengal proper (i.e. MES Y: Behar) the rainfall is at 
least 70 inches a year, spread from 1st April to 31st October, and I 
never saw in that area sugar-cane irrigated in my life, except (rarely) 
a little water-pot work at starting. The * comparatively limited areas 
| East Bengal with a moist climate,” mentioned in paragraph 7 of the 
lee of India’s letter, include nearly all Bengal from Caleutta m 
wae | 
The causes Sei the natives do not grow sugar more successful iiy, wis 
"rt Mr. Goodridge, are correctly stated, but there are others. In - 
igal, Sugar-cane is often in half aere plots; it does not pay the ; 
vator to watch so small a c therefore, every boy, every gharty Er 
ah who passes, takes a few canes, and every elephant takes many. 
Gross robbery i is- also ‘nae These small plots are very Pakam f : 
thus : ; . I have seem them e d pif 
In plots ot of 100.8 acres the pensditinge of loss from this ca wotlk be 
insignifican ; 
po iin be grown anywhere in Bengal proper wit hoài í imiga- 
The crop is, of edes: X ed helped (when rain is PM UE 
Mistre and deeper cultiv Of all c ; Eure a (ven d 
m teurs) attempt in Baiar: i ‘hive noticed pn t whieh ies ey s succeed - 
as wit sugar-cane, Their pe ae eultivation, manuring, and — 
gie careful weeding, tell upon sugar-cane. In several ciises miš- — 
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i -eane. In the present er i 
su rop is said in as to bea 61. an acre; sö iw. y 
will pay for “ high ” cultivatio 
.. As to the advice given to Go koruma to bitüg a Mauri dius: or ‘West, 
id planter to grow sugar-eane for them in Bengal, I ee ay ; 
European gardener in the Bengal service Led competent to 
cane there, probably more competent than à stranger who. Aider stan ida: 
ei e language nor the. Ponie. The chief difficulty of of unskilled 
Baropeans i in raising sugar-cane g good tops for ori x 
to the mis ants of Mr pe dridge, they are - 
to ho white sas of Mr: Goodridge, they 
