8 On the Conditions of WJieat-Growing in India. 
ledge in regard to the action of manures and cattle foods ; and 
the connection between elaborate experiments carried out with 
everything necessary to insure accuracy and the careful but 
more practical erperiments in the different counties will be 
found very close. 
This short summary of the ten years' careful experiments in 
Stackyard Field cannot fail to add greatly to the knowledge of 
the value of manures, and to be a useful guide to those who are 
studying science in connection with practical agriculture. 
II. — On the Conditions of Wheat-Growing in India. By 
George "Watt, M.D., F.L.S., C.I.E., Reporter on Economic 
Products to the Government of India. 
The history of the foreign trade in Indian wheat is obscured 
by numerous conflicting theories and opinions which greatly 
disfigure the literature of the subject. In the writer's opinion 
the public mind has been diverted from the salient features of 
the industry. It is of little consequence whether the depreciation 
in the value of silver acts favourably or unfavourably, unless it 
can be shown that the existence of the wheat trade is vitally 
dependent on the fluctuations of the silver market. Many causes 
have doubtless combined to assist in the establishment of the 
present remarkable trade. The question at issue may be stated 
briefly thus : Is the trade a good and natural one ? Has it reached 
its maximum development ? The former will have to be answered, 
among other considerations, by an enquiry in India as to 
whether it is profitable to the cultivator, and in Europe as to 
whether it is meeting a demand which] another country in the 
future may more successfully contest. The latter can alone be 
solved by a somewhat detailed analysis of the sources of food- 
supply of the people of India taken in the light of the increasing 
population, the possible extension of agricultural operations, and 
the profitable establishment of new branches of industry or the 
enhancement of indigenous handicrafts. These are problems 
of political economy which have to be studied in every country, 
whether Eastern or Western. They represent the adjustment 
between the productiveness of soil and man's inventive resources. 
With India, as with the United States of America, vast tracts 
at rich land have given a preponderance to agriculture and 
agricultural questions which in the past (at least of India) may 
be said to have eclipsed all other considerations. But that a 
radical change is destined to be effected in the not very distant 
future of India, we have a foretaste in the successful manner in 
