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workers, but to develop agriculture by 

 scientific means, and until the knowledge 

 of the laboratory has been translated into 

 practice in the field the work is incom- 

 plete. When reconsidering their educational 

 methods, local education authorities should 

 understand that their aid is expected in 

 securing from the expenditure and labour 

 incurred in agricultural research results of 

 real value. The research institutes endowed 

 by the Development Fund are national, 

 not local institutions. The primary duty 

 of the persons engaged in these institutes 

 is to advance knowledge, and the needs of 

 local agriculture, if they are considered at 

 all, can only be considered incidentally. 

 The result is that if any locality wishes to 

 make use of the research institutes it must 

 take steps to adapt scientific discoveries to 

 its own condition." 

 This leaves me a little uncertain as to what 

 is actually contemplated — the spending of 

 £300,000 on research work alone, with the devo- 

 tion subsequently of other sums by local bodies 

 to diffuse the results of research work : or the 



