The Agricultural Journal. November 1921

the low standard of living of Indian Cultivators the rack renting of tenants the intercetion of larger share of Agricultural profits by Middlemen the want of knowledge and the want of every kind of capital exist together and so efforts should be made to remove them together otherwise any one of the reforms without all others will surely not go very far and is likely to meet with serious d [...] The White-eye occurs throughout the whole of India both in the Plains and in the Hills in Ceylon and the Nicobars and in Upper Burma. [...] The insect-caused wilt is easily distinguished from the fungucaused one by the ease with which the insect-attacked plants can be pulled up and also by the swelling at the root and tunnels which the insect produces. [...] ( t98 )"WILT DISEASE OF COTTON IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES 599 The withering in the case of the insect attack again is sudden and occurs over the whole plant at once. [...] The absence of a mycological laboratory at the Agricultural Research Institute Nagpur during the time the work recorded in this paper was carried out together with the pcssibility of the work being interrupted or having to change hands owing to the impening transfer of one of us from the Central Provinces imposed certain limitations on the scope of the work undertaken.