Government Failings 



country have given much attention to the 

 creation of those conditions and have thus 

 secured a flourishing agricultural industry. 

 It may be a small point — but an instructive 

 one — that the French Government has estab- 

 lished an agricultural order of merit, which 

 is conferred in consideration of distinguished 

 agricultural service ! Our Government has 

 left the Board of Agriculture in a Peter Pan 

 condition, and has denied to it the oppor- 

 tunity for that expansion which alone can 

 fit it for the role which the Ministry of 

 Agriculture should fill in developing the 

 natural resources of the country. 



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