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Indigo is ; only one precaution is necessary ; and that in Ganjam 

 is easily provided for, the supply of water throughout the year 

 should be secure. It is difficult to understand why Europeans 

 .have not taken up this cultivation, I find that the land will yield 

 an equal weight of sugar with land in the West Indies; there is a 

 market for the produce at hand, and labour to be had at 2 pence 

 a day. Yet the inhabitants of this country are emigrating, and 

 some even going to the West Indies to work on the very same cul- 

 tivation, with no one single advantage. The whole difference 

 between the two countries that causes this remarkable state of 

 things is that there is capital in the one country, and not in the 

 other. 



If English settlers brought their money and intelligence to bear 

 upon this cultivation, Ganjam could, I am convinced, undersell all 

 the great sugar growing countries of the world ; but we need not 

 wait for them. There is a population sufficient and as much en- 

 terprize as could be expected, and if the Government acting in the 

 capacity of landlord, did all that is in its power to help the cul- 

 tivators, it might without taking any part in the actual cultivation 

 or advancing money, give such a stimulus to the growth of sugar, 

 as would make it the great staple of the District. 



In looking through the expenses of sugar cultivation, I find that 

 there is as much enterprize as could be expected where those who 

 bear the toil and risk, have to pay the profits of their work, to 

 those who supply the capital required. I am told by people of all 

 classes that where the sugar grower works with borrowed money, 

 his cane yields him no better profit than Rice, and those who take 

 up the growth of sugar are very often induced to do so by the trifle 

 of ready money they obtain as an advance from the merchants to 

 secure the crop. The several expenses of a sugar garden are, the 

 cost of the cuttings (or seed cane.) The land Revenue ; prepar- 

 ing the land by manuring, &c, watering, and buying or hiring the 

 mill and pans for manufacturing the Goor. The usual size of a 

 garden is about 10 Burnums or 2 acres, the cuttings for which, 

 cost usually 40 R-upees. The Assessment on the land is, I believe, 

 about 30 Rupees; I have an account of the cost of cultivation, but 



