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separate bodies. On the one hand, they have had to prove to 
an at times somewhat critical Government not only that the 
work they were endeavouring to do was likely to lead to prac- 
tical results commensurate with the money which was being 
tural population that improvements on existing methods are 
not beyond the bounds of possibility. Both these difficulties 
ave been to a most gratifving extent surmounted and signs 
are not wanting that ere long we shall be landed in the 
Opposite difficulty of being overpowered with demands for a 
guidance which we are not able to furnish. 
What do you require to fit us in the best possible way to. 
meet the emergency which I have foreshadowed? We need 
above all things a much larger and better organized research 
‘staff. Any one who has studied carefully the reports of the 
various Agricultural Departments and more especially the 
a 
Tt h by which those results are obtained is a na 
Should be satisfied by the only rational method, namely 
