Indian Agricultural Efficiency.

At the Bombay Science Congress on the 15th instant Mr GP Keatingo, at the opening of the Agriculture and Botany Section, referred to the inefficient conditions under which agriculture is largely pursued in India. He pointed out that in a progressive country the farm should be a fixed and permanent unit and the farmer should be a fluid and moveable unit, so that the right men might get into the right places. In India just the reverse was the order and the inefficient farmer was the fixed unit. He said:- “In highly individualistic and competitive countries efficiency was secured largely by the elimination of the unfit, who were squeezed out of the race by keen competition coupled with a high standard of living. The law was in constant operation in England...”