The writer having had an opportunity of visiting two of the large estates in the Punjab, was much impressed with the value of the work done on them. Both for the Agricultural department and for the cultivators not only on the actual estates. But in the whole irrigted area of the Punjab. In the short time available it was not possible to acquire more than a general knowledge of conditions ans and this paper has no pretension to be an extact and critical examination of the Punjab tenant system of botai, which breadly speaking ,is one where the tenants cultivate the land and get half the produce , the other half going to the landlord. It is a system which has been long accepted. andd it is not a recent development arising from irrigation and canal colonies.