82 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS AND RESEARCH 



combined visits to the fields are made to fix the work and 

 ensure collaboration. 



In other countries different arrangements may have to 

 be made. But whatever the adaptations to special con- 

 ditions may be, it must always be the aim of the organizer 

 to provide facilities for pure research work in the labora- 

 tory and experiment garden, as well as for experimental 

 work in the field. Opportunity must be made to enable 

 the man carrying on research to work as freely as pos- 

 sible, to go very thoroughly into the question, and to 

 make his work as fundamental as possible; no hurrying 

 whatever, simply to obtain practical results quickly, must 

 be allowed. The experimenter in the field must go 

 straight to his object, and for this purpose opportunity 

 must be made for him to work in close collaboration with 

 the planter or native farmer. By this means it will be 

 possible to attain a practical success, and at the same 

 time to demonstrate the new method. 



Our endeavours to improve agricultural methods in 

 the tropics must always depend on the united efforts of 

 these two scientists. 



