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What organisation is necessary to any real and 

 efl&cient Department of Agriculture in India, and tlie 

 urgent need in which the country stands of this. 



Lastly I shall, by way of illustration, glance at some 

 few of the more important problems that would pro- 

 bably, at the outset, engage the attention of any such 

 Department. 



What the so-called Department of Agriculture really 

 does and has done. 



Although circumstances (to be explained later) had 

 deprived Lord Mayo's new department of all claim to 

 be considered an Agricultural Bureau, its formation 

 marked an era in the history of the country, and 

 served a most useful purpose. In it were gathered 

 up into one homogeneous whole numberless branches 

 of the administration, all more or less potential factors 

 in the material progress of the empire. Branches, 

 therefore, scattered amongst the different secretariats 

 of the Government of India, to be attended to or not, 

 as the more obligatory business of these secretariats 

 might, from time to time, permit ; and when obtaining 

 attention, dealt with too often by ofi&cers necessarily 

 possessing neither the special knowledge nor the ex- 

 perience essential to their satisfactory direction. 



The administration of the Forest Department was 

 transferred from the Public Works Secretariat, and 

 with it the immediate control of a large staff. This 

 involved the general direction of the demarcation, con- 



