Agricultural Progress in Western India

rch and propaganda. Agricultural populations are usually unorganised and inert, and it is only in exceptional circumstances that it is sufficient to clear the road to progress and leave the farmers to seize the opportunity. On the other hand, the economic situation is often such as to block measures that may be taken for the application of scientific methods to agriculture ; and in such cases, unless the way is cleared, progress is, of necessity,, greatly restricted. It is proposed to consider, in this connection, the cases of Denmark and Germany, where sustained efforts of both kinds were taken with conspicuous success; of England in the eighteenth century, where economic measures in connection with the land were sufficient to liberate forces which led to increased production, without any further direct intervention on the partof the government; of the United States of America where general conditions are such that it is claimed that scientific propaganda alone can and does produce enormous results, without any preliminary spade work; and of the tropical countries of Hawaii, Formosa and Java, where agricultural production has been greatly increased by methods which will be described. Denmark (population about 3,000,000).?The Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century had hit Denmark very hard, and the Prussian war of 1864 plunged the country into great distress, besides causing it the loss of much fertile territory. A patriotic movement for the rege...