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moving about generally whilst tlie crops were on the 

 ground. He was to confer personally with all the Pro- 

 vincial Directors and their Governments, go thoroughly 

 with the aid of his staff into all their projects and 

 schemes, make himself fully acquainted with local 

 wants and wishes, and then during the hot season join 

 the Government of India, and lay before it as suc- 

 cinctly as possible all that was desired with his (and 

 his experts') opinions and recommendations. He was 

 to watch closely all the schemes and experiments car- 

 ried out by the Provincial Directors, to furnish them 

 with suggestions, information, and advice ; to procure 

 for them, if they wished it, chiefly through the Agri- 

 cultural Societies of Europe and America, any infor- 

 mation, seeds, cattle, sheep, models of implements, &c., 

 that they required ; to keep all fully informed through 

 the medium of his journal of what all the rest were 

 doing; and as his experience and practical knowledge 

 increased, and alternate failures and successes gra- 

 dually indicated these, to lay down the broad lines of 

 the general policy in regard to agricultural matters that 

 the Government should pursue. 



In connection with the Provincial Directors were to 

 be model and experimental farms, which were to be 

 at the same time agricultural schools of one grade or 

 another, some of the farms being more specially de- 

 voted to the improvement of seed by selection, others 

 to the introduction and acclimatisation of exotic 

 staples, others to the trial of implements and mecha- 

 nical appliances, others to stock-breeding, others to 

 the purposes of tuition, and so on. Mechanical engi- 

 neers were to be employed in connection with some of 



