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men engaged in pure science, and it is hoped that the new conditions 

 will do much to strengthen still further the development of scientific 

 agriculture in this country." 



The movement toward the fostering of industrial research seems 

 to be extending to all parts of the British Empire. The Canadian 

 Government has appointed an honorary advisory council on scientific 

 and industrial research to advise a cabinet committee (including the 

 minister of agriculture) on all matters relating to the extension and 

 coordination of scientific and industrial research. Considerable 

 special development along experimental and demonstration lines in 

 agriculture is also reported from the Dominion. An experimental 

 flax mill has been erected at the Central Experimental Farms, where 

 experimental work is to be begun with a view to developing the in- 

 dustry, and research laboratories are being established in Manitoba 

 and Saskatchewan for emergency studies of grain rust. 

 Ontario, where marked efforts are being made to increase land set- 

 tlement, an agricultural training depot is being organized at one of 



In Northern Ontario, where marked efforts are being made to in- 

 crease land settlement, an agricultural training depot is being organ- 

 ized at one of the experimental farms for the instruction of returning 

 soldiers, as well as several demonstration farms, a plant breeding 

 station, and an agricultural high school. One interesting phase is 

 the utilization of the labor of interned aliens in this section and also 

 in Quebec for the clearing of timberland for eventual use as an 

 experimental substation. 



The South Australian branch of the British Science Guild has 

 drawn up plans for a federal institute for original research, designed 

 to give special attention to agriculture and to undertake " research 

 work beyond experimental farming." The guild has realized the 

 importance of studying from a research point of view everything 

 underlying the successful use of the land, including the wellbeing in 

 every respect of the people engaged in farming operations. Its 

 ideas were presented to the Australian premiers, and it is understood 

 that energetic steps are being taken to put some such a plan into 

 effect. Problems relating to engineering, chemistry, coal mining, 

 diseases of cattle, agriculture, bread making, and other matters are 

 on the list in the federal research scheme being worked out by the 

 executive committee of the Advisory Council of Science and Indus- 

 try for the Commonwealth of Australia. 



The French Academy of Science has proposed and recommended 

 the establishment of national laboratories of scientific research, and 

 a commission of the academy has dealt with the matter of institutions 

 for research in agriculture. In a report presented to the academy 

 toward the close of the last year, the important position of agriculture 



