304 Ministry's Pavilion at the Royal Show, [july, 



The Ministry was well represented at the Royal Agricultural 

 Show at Darlington. The Pavilion occupied a prominent 

 position, and from the opening hour 

 Ministry's Pavilion visitors came in large numbers to see the 

 at the various exhibits. The leaflets and Journal 



Show Ministry were displaj^ed attractively, 



and copies of the speech delivered by the 

 Minister at Harpenden little more than a week before the Show 

 opened were available for free distribution. Photographs and 

 charts afforded much information about agricultural machinery, 

 land cultivation, agricultural education and dairying. There 

 were models of the cottages that are being set up on the 

 Ministry's settlements. There were exhibits showing the value 

 of seed testing, the work of bees, the equipment of land workers, 

 noxious seeds, harmful insects and plant diseases. Excellent 

 maps showed the position of various research and experimental 

 stations throughout the country, and some space was given to 

 the publications of the Agricultural Wa^es Board. 



Nothing could be more gratifjdng than the numbers of 

 visitors attracted by the Ministry's Exhibit, and the interest 

 shown therein. The crowds that thronged the Pavilion, 

 however, gave the surest indication that in future it will be 

 necessary to devote far more space to the display if the public 

 is to derive full benefit from this means of instruction. If 

 all the branches of the Ministry's work are to receive a thoroughly 

 adequate setting so that inspection of exhibits on any individual 

 stand may be easy and unhampered, all risk of overcrowding 

 must be obviated. It might be said that the Pavilion space 

 would have been quite adequate had a smaller range of subjects 

 been dealt with, but that would be to reduce the efficiency of 

 the undertaking and to do less than is sufficient to meet the 

 proper needs of the occasion. The public interest is not at all 

 likely to fall off, and it has undoubted^ been stimulated to a 

 very great extent by the agricultural developments of the 

 past few years and by the prominent position into which 

 British agriculture has been forced by the War. There can 

 be no doubt that the public interest only needs a proper oppor- 

 tunity to expand, and with that expansion the Ministry's 

 representation at the Royal Show will require extension upon 

 a generous scale in order that justice may be done to the ever- 

 growing list of its projects for the welfare of agriculture. 



The demand for the Ministry's publications at the Show was 

 very satisfactory, no less than 45,000 leaflets being distributed 

 free, while in addition a large number of publications were sold. 



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