628 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



will mean a very large increase in these farms, each of which will be 

 in charge of a trained native assistant, with the necessary helpers. 



It is proposed to strengthen the expert staff of each provincial 

 department of agriculture so as to include one or more superintendents 

 of farms, an agricultural chemist, economic botanist, mycologist, and 

 entomologist. The superintendent of farms in each province, or 

 deputy director, will be an expert agriculturist and will be in charge 

 of a "circle," which in the case of large provinces will compri.se only 

 a part of a province. In his circle he will supervise all agricultural 

 work, including the experiment stations, demonstration plats, the test- 

 ing and distribution of seeds, implements, and special manures. He 

 will also be in close touch with the cultivators, and will be the guiding 

 spirit of the agricultural associations of his circle. He will be assisted 

 b\ r the workers at the experimental farms and a peripatetic staff. The 

 specialists at the provincial experiment station will not only conduct 

 investigations in their laboratories and on their farms, but will tour 

 throughout the province, visiting all the local experiment stations and 

 farms, directing the work connected with their special branches, and 

 inquiring into local conditions. 



It is further proposed to locate an agricultural college in each impor- 

 tant province, with a course of technical training extending over three 

 years. In the past the personnel of the agricultural colleges has been 

 inadequate, so that their influence on agricultural improvement has 

 been small. The main result of the colleges has been to turn out stu- 

 dents with some knowledge of agriculture, who have been largely 

 absorbed into the several branches of government revenue adminis- 

 tration. It is believed now that the demand for graduates will be 

 sufficient to induce a larger number of students to attend, as the held 

 for the trained agriculturist is said to be broadening. The course in 

 the provincial agricultural colleges will lead up to the specialized 

 post-graduate course at Pusa. 



Considerable attention will also be given to the dissemination of 

 information, especially the results of agricultural investigation and 

 their application in practice. Temporary demonstration plats will 

 be started, district agricultural associations will be organized, agri- 

 cultural shows will be subsidized, the distribution of improved seed, 

 implements, and manures will be extended, and popular publications 

 in the vernacular will be issued. It is pointed out that there are many 

 difficulties in the way of agricultural improvement in a country like 

 India, where most of the land is divided into small holdings and cul- 

 tivated by men with no capital and little education; but by the means 

 enumerated it is hoped to bring the work into closer touch with the 

 actual farmers, and make it of more immediate use to them. 



As a further concentration of effort it is proposed to separate the 

 land records branch of the provincial departments, and to appoint a 



