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be accomplished by means of farms under the 

 charge of practical agriculturists, who can give 

 the subject the full care it requires." As, for 

 instance, in India, where we are told by the 

 same authority that the Madras Government 

 has " sanctioned the suggestion of the Board of 

 Revenue, to the effect that the experimental cul- 

 tivation of tobacco should be at once commenced 

 under Mr. Robertson, Superintendent of the 

 Government Farms, and that the results should 

 be submitted to Mr. Broughton for analysis." 

 We may conclude that the Government would 

 be equally able and willing to employ similar 

 beneficent measures at home. Indeed our Royal 

 Agricultural Society would soon supply the 

 agricultural and scientific knowledge needed for 

 the purpose in this country. 



The experimenters on tobacco should be placed 

 under the supervision of the Royal Agi'icultural 

 Society, and the experiments carried on in the 

 same way as those on potatoes in 1884. The 

 committee offered prizes, and employed every 

 means, both at home and abroad, for the dis- 

 covery of the cause, origin, and prevention of 

 the potato disease. Mr. CaiTuthers, in his 

 " Report " on the subject in the same year, 

 wrote as follows : " The Committee fixed on 



