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at least there is room enough and to spare. This, 

 however, is the state of things that has existed, and 

 exists in full force at the present minute, in the pro- 

 fession of agricultural teacher. In the early nineties, 

 when the Board of Agriculture and Local Authorities 

 were starting their schemes, any man who was reason- 

 ably qualified could practically secure a post where he 

 pleased ; and although, in the interval, the various 

 Colleges and Agricultural Departments have been 

 turning out many well-trained men, the extension of 

 the educational movement has more than kept pace 

 with the supply of teachers. Ireland, which some ten 

 years ago took up with great energy the improvement 

 of agriculture through the agency of education and 

 organization, has had to draw its teachers almost 

 exclusively from Great Britain. During the past ten 

 years Egypt has frequently taken agricultural lecturers 

 and investigators from this country. More recently 

 the South African Colonies, British East Africa, and 

 the British Territories in West Africa, also some of our 

 West Indian Possessions, have been creating staffs for 

 education, research, and administration; and although 

 the United States has had to be drawn upon, to some 

 extent, the great majority of the men have been taken 

 from this country. During the past three or four years 

 no country has given practical expression to a belief in 

 the advantages of the application of science to agri- 

 culture in so marked a degree as British India. 

 Besides the great central research station at Pusa, it 

 has created an agricultural staff in every province, 

 usually associating it with a Provincial College. The 

 Central Station alone has made provision for a staff of 

 nineteen specialists, while the requirements of the Pro- 

 vincial Departments extend to sixty-three. The con- 



