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128 consumer." And this he said was to be done by planting Gaorani cotton on government farms. "The policy of the Agricultural Department," he said, "is not to establish large expensive model farms, but rather to demonstrate by small experiments in various parts of the country, what can be done at a reasonable cost."

"If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," and when I visited these government farms in 1913, I found them much too small to do more than look well on paper. As to Gaorani seed, the ryots can get it from the men who still buy nothing but Gaorani cotton; but they prefer to buy mixed seed because the present demand is for mixed cotton — that is to say for Bharat, with a little Gaorani and a little Nambhri mixed with it.

I have read in one of Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad's administration reports that pro- vision has been made in the administration for special commissions, and I think that much good might be done if such a commission were to enquire into the management of the ginning and pressing factories, the injury done to cotton seed by the machinery used to-day, the mixing of the three varieties of