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I am not here concerned so much, with the development of a 

 scheme practical in all its details for such, practical experience and 

 a local knowledge I do not possess is essential as with outlining the 

 main features any scheme, to be effective, must possess. Among 

 such features I place the absence of penalty against the licensee. 

 Success or failure will depend very largely on the goodwill of these. 



In the " Agricultural Journal of Egypt," Volume VIII, page 69, an 

 account is given of the system of control of taqdwi instituted in 

 connection with the control of cotton seed organized in 1917. The 

 problem was then approached from a different standpoint, and the 

 control is, therefore, of a somewhat different nature to that which 

 I have just suggested. It introduces control at a stage when that 

 control is difficult of application and of nature which, at first sight, 

 appears to be restrictive. It is for that reason that I hesitated to 

 suggest any control at this stage. The fact that the scheme has been 

 developed without serious criticism from the financial interests 

 affected makes it worth considering whether its institution on a 

 permanent basis is not desirable. It is truly complementary to the 

 scheme I have here proposed ; there is no fundamental incompatibility 

 between them, since they do not cover the same ground, and there 

 should be no great difficulty in making the two dovetail into each 

 other. 



There appears to be a body of responsible ginners who fully 

 recognize the importance of seed control and who would willingly 

 undertake to make such returns. The position is more nearly that 

 of a co-partnership for mutual benefit than one of enforcement of a 

 restrictive order. For the services provided Government guarantees 

 a partial monopoly. In such a system any penalty beyond the 

 removal of the license is inadmissible, and penalty, if any be required, 

 will be imposed on the purchaser of non-guaranteed seed. The use 

 to which the returns are put will end normally with the check which 

 they will enable the district officer to make. Of one fact I am 

 thoroughly convinced, if a scheme based on the goodwill and co- 

 operation of the ginner be wanting in success, no scheme based on 

 compulsion and the enforcement of penalties will lead to any better 

 result. 



It is recognized that any scheme such as I have outlined will 

 throw a considerable amount of work on the circle officers to accomplish 

 which a large portion of their time will be spent in touring. It is very 

 largely recognition of this fact which is responsible for the suggestion 

 that the normal senior staff of the circle shall be two ; the senior 

 engaged mainly in touring and the district work, and the junior 

 on experimental work. 



I have left reference to the economic aspect till the last because 



