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X The P ob saa in the ‘Moura ius, with whieh Messrs 
- Travers compare India for the purpose of showing how backward the 
industry is in this couttry, is as I gather from the Loofeetds flint I 
: been a e to obtain, carried on under circumstances very similar 
o those which exist in the West Indies. In both countries there are . 
E found nd— 
do Sugar plantations of considerable size duliuxd by int dpeans | 
nd persons of European descent, and cultivated by paid labour 
by negroes in Barbados, sien ‘and coolies in AUN and 90 
ndian coolies in Maurit ee 
E. e ) The employment of a MEbuderdbl capital in this iudaspy and © 
5 the d of steam and mechanical and latterly of chemieal 
... Science in the manufacture of sugar. 
(3) An innland rainfall of 40* inches per annum well spread 
a ^ throughout the year (though there is a well-d efined rainy 
.  . Season) affording adequate moisture during te: months in 
which the cane. crop is on the ground. The occurrence of 
` frequent showers falling on a natur rally well-drained soil which 
rests on porous coral or coralline rock that prevents stagnation - 
and water-logeing 
3. Tot those acquainted. id the present condition of Indian agri- 
cir 
a 
nder sugar-ca In 
here most of the sugar of these dire agi is 
f cultivators in a village club together and sow 
, the area being divided among them re hi 
e rot has neither - son Pst grate nor the means of 
improving g his ee of cultivation. Ins of a steady and ‘all de a 
ed rainfall, we have nearly all of our rain during four months of 
e year, with an we vot shower at Christmas and à dry season 
2 . Hence at one 
ivers, or from tanks and 
ados, and, I believe, i in the Mauritius. ze 
als irrigation is not required, and is never practised. : 
eu It would be difficult to` say whether the differences between the Eo 
Indian. and "mes Tut n methods are most marked in the cultivation et 
^. 
i prevents the surroundin 
young plants. 
ng gronds f from rd — by 1 the sun, : 
s. Vor the 
