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 conspire 60 tie 11 an untruth when there was no great] gain in view, and suffering, a certainty- Ib is impossible for thousands of men to learn by heart figures as to the yield, actual and probable of over ten crops 30 that the total in each oase would give less than a four-anna orop, I contend that my method contains automatic safeguards against deception. Moreover I had challenged the official annawari alike of kharif and rabi crops, When I did so the rabi crops were still standing. I had, therefore, sug- gested tnafc they could cut the rabi crops and teat the yield and thus find the true annawari. I had suggested this specially of Vadthal. My argument was that if the cultivators' annawari of such rabi crops was found to be oorrect and the officials' wrong, it was nob improper fro infer that the cultivators' valuations regarding the kharif crops were also right, My offer was not accepted. I cnay add thai I had asked to be allowed to be present when the collector visited Vadbhal which was taken as a test village. This request was also not acceded to.

Tbe note is misleading inasmuch as it states that in arriving at my annawari, I have not taken into account the rabi crops or the cotton crops. I have taken these -crops into account, I have simply questioned the logic of the official system, The reason is obvious. If out of a population of one thousand men, only two hundred men ^rew rabi oropsi it would be highly unjust to the eight hundred men to force up their annawari if without the rabi crops their crops showed only four annas or under-

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I am surprised ad the gross inaccuracies in the para* ,:graph devoted to the crops in Limbasi. In the first ins-

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