up the records of the great famine of 1813, when Kathiawar
parents sold their children and men killed and devoured
each other, to realize the full gieaning and the value iof a
constant and cheap supply of grain. As "regards irrigation,
the experience of the past year should also have taught you
the necessity of storing rain-water in irrigatiojn tanks
wherever contours of land are favourable. Such works will
not obviate famine, hbt th<y will greatly mitigate its inten-
sity. There is another lesson which, I hope, that the
famine has taught you, and that is the positive necessity of
laying by a portion of your incomes in every year, as an
emergency fund, to meet these sudden and terrible straits.
