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students educated in the United States, whether they return to 

 their own country to practise agriculture or to teach its science 

 there, will have their ideas founded on American methods 

 and practice and will be familiar with American industrial 

 appliances. With or without intention, and however remote 

 from such material aims the hospitable policy of the United 

 States may have been, they will be largely the commercial 

 agents of United States industry and assist to promote the 

 trade interests of that country. 



It is somewhat remarkable that the United Kingdom, with 

 thirty-three universities and colleges connected with agricul- 

 tural education, with numerous institutions for scientific 

 research and experimental work, with a record not only in 

 the practice but in the precepts of agricultural science- 

 entitling it to rank at any rate equal to other civilised 

 countries, should be so modest of its own achievements that 

 little news of them is allowed to travel abroad. It is currently 

 believed in Argentina that the British, so successful as 

 practical stock-breeders and agriculturists, concern them- 

 selves little about the sciences in whose application they are 

 engaged ; a state of affairs which, were it true, . would be 

 indeed singular. 



Buenos Ay res Exhibition. — Next year there will be held 

 in Buenos Ayres an International Agricultural Exhibition to 

 celebrate the first centenary of the 1810 May Revolution, 

 which culminated in the independence of the Republic. There 

 are special sections for the exhibition of scientific research 

 work and agricultural education. If the question be asked 

 whether it will "pay " to exhibit in these sections, the answer 

 must be that there is no material reward offered to recom- 

 pense the outlay occasioned by taking part in what is, in the 

 first instance, an academical display. But so surely as 

 commerce followed in the wake of the Elizabethan "ships of 

 fools," the knowledge conveyed of what Great Britain is 

 doing in scientific investigation and in agricultural education 

 will open the road to reciprocal and material benefits. 



[Information respecting the Exhibition will be found on 



P. 765.] 



