New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-07
THE HINDOO FARMER.
HE FINDS 40 USE FOR WESTERN AGRl-
CULTURAL. METHODS-CASTE
AND THE FAMINE.

Sir Edwin Arnold in The North American Review.
TO feed only the Northwest and oudh y. taxes
Gfteen ana half million acres 10 f ies' pnmb,y
twenty -four and half millions. and 10 feed Mad;
Is5as Tbe popnion Of theseoy portion re-
member OF ihe vasl country-would mount up 10 a;
speak ing seneray. they ali depend in less ?r
greater degree upon those timely khaTli ana rap
left TO conquer. may ask Why the area OF cultivated
ground Is not inereased inc rfpy s,,e mn mon ,h
maps. there is not much good ground remaining 10
ciimate is deadly as in the Terai; there are poor
tracts where population is scanty but nei'her 10Y
men with methods and machinery does there
exist any considerable margin OF unused soil SOL; 81.
Yield by Inanures? lie certainly employs none
which are artificial and imported IKE the ni,ra,es
materials. and when high authorities mock MIN for
nrs Up all f S hS nows G ha the Of
sauri are just as precious TO the SOIL as the hhtu'i
He"er seriously mended in india except close 10 the
villages and toi sugar cane opium or garden erops
or gray sol some jungle branches and dead leaves
Neither have Western machinery nor scien nlI
sussex even Massachusetts, DO with the nus
bandman who will insis on carrying a plough or
i3 ~ year. nSo IN oref ~ make Wonc
from the bountiful hand Of heaven which he calls
much Of the culiurable jungle as can be easily
reached morning and evening by his slow moving
cattle. lie has not the capital nor the mind for
machine is still and always the wind blowing from
heaven. Jowarr and BARI are for the humble;
wheat, nour and rice foT The Brahman; and the rich,
meat which the strong sshib and savage Malone
tan devour Such IS his simple fare-millet-
cakes and boiled leaves Of rape and gram with
these the blameless existence of the Hindoo sus,
ns lis To" chee and ss - aTs hed
known and abou, one hundred and eighty million
at all unless in The shape OF milk curds and CHI,
which last Is clarified butter.
southwest monsoon is exceptionally late in setting
in premature In It's cessation. or seanty and r-
great mischief may be done and any failure of the
rain at this season IS damaging not only 10 the
wh;ch thoroughly mo.stened seed bed IL essential
Tho early and late falls looked for soften the
sowing the kharf in the ore Gaze and the fa6 in
The other and delay in putting in the seed beyond
certain period Is r prej19hieal 10 the grow;h and
the khaTif crop are hardy plants. and can bear
great deal of ireguIarity; but any partial cessation
Of hf is ene in e IN Of the or
soon. VIII do them great injury. especially H. as s
%ind also sets in Rice Is more decatc and md per
shes 7 the plants are either 100 deeply Submerged
reason winter rice Of Bengal and the sea coast
Is n on c,a S lon
monsoon has generally ceased IN Upper India:
The sef-respect OF Hndoos IL prodlgious: and they
lose face" in applying to any save kinsnan for
food which indeed. many Americans will know
is especially " thus obtained uneatable for high
castles when not lawfully prepared a Hindoo
servant. whom I desired 10 cure surrepftiously of
MS deadly weakness after fever by beeftca told
me. quite swee'ly. that he would have poisoned
me. upon recovery. IL ] had carried ont The idea
Again. the purdah-nsshin. tho "curtaln-dw ellers'
oSh a%ois1 ; from 1s the Msu an pSSO nev
really Aryan-cannot announce their misery nor
lake an alms-bowl 10 the Relief Camp There IL a
category Of these-Women and cndron-who
begin slowly ana certainly 20 perish as as the
famine begins, and who must and will succumb al
last. unreacEed by the great hand Of the Govern.
ment. Or only reached when despair has brought
them haggard, wasted and shameless-to snatch
that last meal which Is desperately Gravel for
but the very eating Of which IL poison TO the en-.
fcebled and ulcerated stomach.