THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 



Vol. XXVI. No. II. 



FEBRUARY. 1920. 



NOTES. 



Lord Lee ofFareham, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 addressing representatives of agricultural education on the 



15th January last, in the Hall of the Civil 

 Educat'on^ and Engineers' Institute, outlined proposals for 

 Research extension of agricultural education and 



research throughout the country. 

 In view of our limited area of land, the increased production of 

 foodstuffs on which our future security depends can only be 

 obtained by far more intensive cultivation. This involves a 

 great increase of understanding of modern agriculture, and a 

 far wider spread of agricultural education. In educational 

 affairs, as in aU other matters connected with agricultural pro- 

 gress, the motto of the Ministry is " Trust the Counties." In 

 the main, the Ministry will confine its responsibilities to co- 

 ordinating the efforts of the Local Authorities, giving them 

 every assistance it can. It will become the source from which 

 central technical advice on agricultural matters will issue. 

 After explaining the organisation of the Intelligence Depart- 

 ment recently set up at the Ministry under the control of Sir 

 Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S., Lord Lee touched on the question 

 of the local organisation for providing agricultural education 

 and advice. The inmiediate question which arises out of the 

 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 191 9, is this : Is 

 agricultural education to be entrusted to the Education Com- 

 mittee of the County Council, or transferred to the Agricultural 

 Committee ? The Act gives the option to each county to 

 exercise its discretion, and the Ministry does not intend to use 

 its influence on one side or the other. If agricultural education 

 goes over to the Agricultural Committee, the Ministry is in 

 complete agreement with the Board of Education in wishing 

 to see an adequate representation of the main Education 



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