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vators, and I need not lay stress on the difficulties experienced 
by these District Agricultural officers in their attempts to dis- 
seminate these ideas in the villages. In a word, their duties 
have all the charm and disappointments of a missionary worker. 
ends either in damping the spir.t of the worker or in his pro- 
ducing haphazard work. So long as the experimenter is 1m- 
bued with the true spirit of research, namely the spirit of dis- 
covering and evolving truths of nature and so long as he is 
qualified, by his knowledge and training. to undertake research 
work, a research worker may be left in peace; for it is im his 
nature and to his interest to carry on his work as quickly as 
possible, if not for the benefit of humanity at least for the 
winning of his own laurels in scientific circles. 
Granting the above conditions of the scope of Agricultural 
research, the next question arises “‘ Are we going on right 
lines 2”? 1 believe we are. We are following generally the 
fore welcoming the Indianisation of the department in the 
higher services which has already come and which will come 
in greater measure in the near future. Let me beg of you, 
gentlemen, to remember that this Indianisation connotes In- 
hil i inferior to those of other countries, is in 
et ey ee ee inds who can think, design and 
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direct. I appeal to you and I exhort you, younger members 
