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SECTION II. 

 HOW TO EXPAND. 



CHAPTER IV. 



By not Discouraging the Expansion of 

 Agricultural and other Industries throughout 



the Empire. 



Patriots and Parasites. 

 Tropical Life, September, 1915. 



In our issue of October, igog, we called attention to the 

 report issued by the Departmental Committee appointed 

 to inquire into and report upon the subject of agricultural 

 education in England and Wales, before which our Editor 

 gave evidence, and urged that scholarships (or their 

 equivalent) should be established to enable the holder to 

 travel abroad to study the agricultural methods of other 

 people and lands and compare them with their own. This 

 point was accepted by the Committee, which " strongly 

 urged the Board of Agriculture to provide — as is done in 

 other countries — scholarships enabling the holder to under- 

 take post-graduate research, and also travelling fellow- 

 ships to enable teachers and other suitable persons to 

 study agriculture abroad " (see Report, p. 2g, paragraph 

 103). In the right-hand column against this recom- 

 mendation are placed the names of the three witnesses, 

 Mr. William McCracken (formerly Professor of Agriculture 

 at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and at that 

 time, in igog, agent for Lord Crewe's estates in Cheshire), 

 Professor Winter, M.A., Professor of Agriculture at 

 University College, Bangor, and the Editor of Tropical 

 Life, who urged the establishment of such scholarships. 



We were reminded of this by the receipt of the late 

 Professor King's wonderful work on the agricultural 

 methods that have been slowly evolved out of forty 

 centuries of experience by the farmers of China, Korea, 



