40 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



Agricultural Exhibitions. — Two large Agricultural 

 exhibitions were visited, namely, the Royal Agricultural 

 Show at Bristol and the Agricultural Exhibition at Munich 

 in connection with the ' Oktoberfest.' 



At Bristol some attention was paid, at the request of 

 the Government of India, to the Overseas section — a new 

 departure at the Royal Show in which the assistance of 

 India was requested. Government decided not to partici- 

 pate at present but to ask two of the officers of the Agricul- 

 tural Department to submit a joint report on the nature 

 and objects of this section of the Exhibition. Exhibits 

 were sent not only by the Self-governing Dominions (Aus- 

 tralia, Canada and South Africa), but also by some of the 

 Local Governments of the Dominions (Victoria, South Aus- 

 tralia, Queensland and Western Australia) and by various 

 Crown Colonies (Federated Malay States, British West 

 Indies and British Guiana) and Rhodesia. In addition, 

 various Companies dealing with emigration sent large ex- 

 hibits, such as the Orient Line, the Dominion Settlement 

 Association, the Canadian Government Emigration Depart- 

 ment, the Canadian Northern Railway and the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. India was represented by a small stall 

 sent by the Department of Agriculture, Bengal. The fea- 

 ture of the Overseas section as a whole was the inducement 

 held out to emigrants — labourers, small holders and farm- 

 ers — to settle in the new countries. The exhibit of pro- 

 ducts was evidently a subsidiary matter and it was clear 

 that the advantage to India of participating in such an 

 Exhibition in the future would be almost negligible in pro- 

 portion to the trouble and expense involved. 



Some time was devoted both at Bristol and at Munich 

 to the modern developments in the manufacture of agricul- 

 tural implements which is not without interest to India at 

 the present time now that the Co-operative movement is 

 spreading and the purchasing power of the cultivator has 

 been increased by union and is no longer limited by his 

 individual resources. At Bristol particularly and to a less 

 extent at Munich, the feature of the display of implements 



