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The seed farms are not so readily allocated. Their primary function 

 is to work up a stock of pure seed, and for this purpose botanical 

 control and botanical examination are desirable. At the same time 

 their location makes centralized control difficult, while for the same 

 reason they fall, naturally into a district organization. We have here 

 to strike the balance between the different disabilities, and I am 

 inclined to think that the deciding factor should be one of individuality. 

 It might be found advisable to adopt a middle in this matter, placing 

 the seed farm nearest to headquarters under the Botanical Section 

 and the remainder under the respective district agricultural officers. 



From the seed farm seed is issued to the cultivator, using that 

 word in its widest sense. The selection of these is a matter for the 

 district officer, whose knowledge of his district should be such as to 

 enable him to select the more reliable cultivators for the purpose. 

 These may be actual cultivators or landholders who take a personal 

 interest in the management of their estates. No doubt, too, valuable 

 assistance could be rendered by the State Domains in this direction. 



Before proceeding to the discussion of the wider distribution of 

 seed, with the precautions necessary to maintain purity, I may 

 summarize the scheme here outlined by a diagrammatic representation 

 of the stages in the development of a pure race. 



The table given at the end of this note indicates the method by 

 which purity is maintained up to the commercial stage with which 

 we have now to deal. It may be described as a series of waves 

 originating with the research farm and passing from thence outwards. 

 There is no backward flow of seed, and the effect of any accidental 

 cause leading to impurity is thus eliminated automatically. 



The agricultural organization conceived in this scheme is one of a 

 series of circles (to use an Indian term) based as far as possible on type 

 tracts and, therefore, since these are determined by environmental 

 conditions, on climate. Each circle will be in charge of a circle officer 

 whose work is dual. On the one hand he will have control of an 

 experimental farm and. on the other, he must develop an intimate 

 knowledge of his circle and be in a position to select reliable men to 

 whom he can entrust the cultivation of the seed issued from the seed 

 farms. The former, to be properly developed, will require a great deal 

 of personal work, involving residence at the local headquarters at 

 the busiest season, the latter frequent touring. The two functions 

 are incompatible, and if one or other line of work is not to be neglected 

 it seems essential that two officers should, normally, be allowed on 

 the strength of each circle, an arrangement which has certain 

 administrative advantages. 



