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gradually, and would be centred at first principally in districts 

 showing- the maximum of agi'icultural development. From the data 

 derived from investigations in such districts there would be drawn 

 a mass of information applicable to untried areas. It is for the 

 Government and the country to support this class of work, and to 

 recognise the knowledge that springs from it as fundamental to all 

 progress in agriculture. 



