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mediately by a Director-Greneral of Agriculture and 

 not by a Secretary. He considered the subject too 

 great to admit of its being satisfactorily dealt with, 

 unless the best man available gave it his entire time 

 and thoughts. He intended the Director- General to 

 be supreme in his own Department, and only nominally 

 attached for official purposes to one or other Secreta- 

 riat, in the same way as the Director-General of Post 

 Offices is practically supreme in all departmental 

 matters, though nominally attached to the Financial 

 Department. 



The Director-General was to have immediately under 

 him a small staff of experts, and was to keep up only 

 just such an office as was absolutely unavoidable. 

 There was to be as little writing and as much actual 

 work as possible. Directors of Agriculture were to 

 be appointed in each province, also to be aided by ex- 

 perts. They were to work partly through the direct 

 agency of farms* and agricultural schools, and partly 

 through the revenue officials of all grades down to the 

 village accountants. The Director- General was to be 



* By farms are to be liere -understood real model farms on care- 

 fully selected sites, presided over by picked experts, and liberally 

 supjplied with funds and all requisite appurtenances. No plots of 

 waste, sucb as of late years have almost universally done duty as 

 model farms, waste brought roughly under cultivation by amateurs 

 or florists, who never enjoyed a single day's real training in either 

 theoretical or practical agriculture, and never had at their com- 

 mand more than a fraction of the funds requisite, if justice was to 

 be done to their charges. That these gentlemen and their so- 

 called farms were unsuccessful was surely their misfortune, not 

 their fault, and they deserve, most of them, much credit for doing 

 their best. But let no one gauge the capacity for good, in solving 

 agricultural problems and in imparting agricultural knowledge, of 

 well organized model farms by these failures. 



