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150 GILBERT SLATER greater size and muscular strength, partly to the colder climate which makes energetic labor more possible, partly to the fact that in the development of methods of working expedition and efficiency have been more sought after in England; and partly to the fact that the English labor has the assistance of more effective tools and a much larger equipment of machinery. I have said this estimate of one-tenth is a very rough one, but in conversation with Dr. Harold Mann, Principal of the Poona Agricultural College, I asked him to form a similar estimate and he confirmed my guess.

I may here say that I am anxious to collect information with regard to the relative efficiency of English and Indian labor when they can be fairly compared. The most favorable comparisons I have yet found are