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 2. V. the modification of the present IAud lvenue polic. At the same time minuie sub-division they recognize that the evil o! of holdings, below limits where the latter cease to be economic in the sense that they are insufficient to maintain a family, exists, the fragmented and scattered character of comprised in the some extent to holdings is really cultivation. and h h trip hindrance to I have used the soil and the facilities them where such are of. of irrigation unequal character. ideal of s single consolidated holding does not seem to be practicable, but consolidation can be carried out as far as possible so that each man's holding may consist of wo or three separate Mocks as the situation of each village may require.. It. wil! be obvious] inadvisable to aim at any uniformity m the methods to be adopted for consolidatin these areas. The more work, however, of consolidatin them and o! devisin such laws as would prevent their sub-division below economic towards removing No doubt it would obviate many dental to the present condition limits would not go far the hindrance to effective of. the of. land but unless the question of. increasing the facilities for irrigation and making water available to the ryot in s more certain manner is attended to st the ssm time the movement for the constitution and preserva- tion of. economic holdings as well as for their consolid&tion is not likely to meet with any warm or any enthusiastic sapport by the persons in whose interest these measures are sought to be devised. I am satisfied from the enquiries that I ].ve been making recently that there is a danger in looking enough farming. evils inoi- holdings, fertility of enjoyed by The the words "to some extent" advisedly, for they think that it is an advantage to have the holdings scattered in two or three places according to the