. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. e just mentioned, Ihad a very interesting interview in Madras which should shedsome light on Indian agriculture. In Madras Presidency, he told me, we cultivate 10,-000,000 acres of rice, which is the favorite food of the it is expensive compared with some cheaper foods, however,the people put 4,500,000 acres to a sort of sorghimi — not thesorghum cultivated for syrup or sugar but for the seed to beused as a grain food — and als
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. e just mentioned, Ihad a very interesting interview in Madras which should shedsome light on Indian agriculture. In Madras Presidency, he told me, we cultivate 10,-000,000 acres of rice, which is the favorite food of the it is expensive compared with some cheaper foods, however,the people put 4,500,000 acres to a sort of sorghimi — not thesorghum cultivated for syrup or sugar but for the seed to beused as a grain food — and also grow 4,000,000 acres of milletthe seed of which are used as a grain food. Then we grow 2,000,000 acres in cotton, but cotton inIndia is grown only on black soils. We want some for redsoils, and we are also seeking to increase the yield and thelength of staple in the indigenous varieties. In both thesepoints the Indian cotton now compares very badly with theAmerican. Our average yield is only about 50 to 100 poundslint per acre, and the staple is only three quarters to fiveeights of an inch in length, and not suitable for spinning over20s in BURNING THE BODIES OF DEAD HINDUS
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