Section G2 



AGRICULTURE 



ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT: 



Professor WILLIAM ANGUS, B.Sc. 



Late Director of Agriculture, Adelaide. 



THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND THIS SECTION TO THE 

 FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIAN 

 AGRICULTURE. 



Introductory. — We have just been raised to the dignity of an 

 independent Section, and by this action on the part of our fellow 

 members it would seem that we have not been unmindful of our 

 duties in the past. The great importance of the agricultural in- 

 dustry has now been recognised by this Association — an industry 

 the success or failure of which affects, directly or indirectly, every 

 individual in the Commonwealth. The condition of every phase 

 of life and activity is dependent on that of the primary producer. 

 Hence the justification for giving more prominence to this Section 

 in the affairs of the Association. But, in addition to this, those 

 members who moved in this matter had in their minds the important 

 bearing that science is having on our Australian agriculture. It 

 is in the nature of things that in a young country like ours, where 

 the producer is labouring under new conditions, and where he has 

 no long tradition of experience to rely upon, science should have a 

 great field for work in the development of a national agriculture. 



It is necessary, however, to bear in mind that we have under- 

 taken increased responsibilities. We are now called upon to do a 



