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these farms and schools, whose special duty it was to 

 be to adapt the results (where implements of all 

 kinds were concerned) of European and American 

 science, to the wants and means of the Indian hus- 

 bandman. At first the best civil officers available 

 were to be picked out as Directors, and the best avail- 

 able trained European agriculturists were to be got 

 out to direct the schools and farms, and act as advi- 

 sers to the Director- Greneral and Directors. Conti- 

 nuity was to be secured by making the service one ; 

 Directors were to be promoted to Director- General, 

 experts and heads of farms and schools were to be 

 promoted to Directorships. G-radually, as the expert 

 element acquired knowledge of the country, people, 

 and language, the non-expert element of civilians was 

 to be allowed to disappear. There was to be consti- 

 tuted a compact agricultural service in two divisions, 

 the lower and larger one recruited entirely from the 

 Indian schools, the smaller and higher division re- 

 cruited to a certain extent from the lower, but, at any 

 rate for many years, mainly from home. 



Under the Director-General a Journal of Agricul- 

 ture was to be issued. A separate and competent 

 editor was to be employed, but the Director- General 

 was to be responsible, and he was to secure for it the 

 aid of all his own and all the Provincial Agricultural 

 Officers. The collection of agricultural statistics was 

 to be the work of the local Directors, but the further 

 tabulation of these statistics, and the preparation from 

 the provincial reports of a monthly or fortnightly 

 summary of the prospects and progress of the crops on 

 the model of those issued by the Bureau at Washing- 



