AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS AND RESEARCH 6l 



Institute, and the occasions when a " splash in the pool " 

 has been made to the detriment of good and solid results 

 are not uncommon. The successful director will be one 

 who, while exercising sufficient control and influence to 

 get the various sections of an institute to work peacefully 

 together, relieving them of as much correspondence, 

 account and general administrative work as possible, 

 will" at the same time obliterate himself in such a manner 

 that every man under him will feel that he is the master 

 of his own job. 



From the creation of the Central Research Institute as 

 described naturally follows the necessity of an organiza- 

 tion for expansion and the spread and demonstration of 

 the results of research, for the distribution of seed of 

 improved varieties of crops, and for further experiment 

 in particular localities. The spheres of units for expan- 

 sion and localized work would have to be defined. In 

 India they are the provinces ; in England they would 

 conveniently be the counties. At the head of each unit 

 would be an administrative head or director, and the 

 principles of co-ordination laid down for the organization 

 of a Central Research Institute would apply equally to 

 these units. But local problems and the demonstration 

 of improved methods would be their chief concern, and 

 the staff would have to be chosen to that end. The 

 agricultural expert, as opposed to the strictly scientific 

 man, would be chiefly in request, as it is only through him 

 that the farmer and cultivator can be adequately reached. 

 The appointment of other experts would have to be made 

 according as local problems and local differences require 

 research and experiment to be carried on away from the 

 central body. The work of demonstration and distri- 

 bution will require a subordinate staff sufficiently numer- 

 ous to effectually push an improved method; and it is 

 to be observed that this staff should be under the direct 

 control of the professional man concerned with the 

 work. The undertaking of demonstration work under 

 the immediate control of the director, especially in 

 tropical countries, is to be strongly deprecated, unless 

 he himself is expert in the particular work with which 

 he is dealing. 



