THE JOURNALgz^^O. 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Vol. XVIII. No. 8. 



NOVEMBER, 1911. 



PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ADVICE FOR 

 FARMERS, AND THE INVESTIGATION OF 

 LOCAL AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have been in- 

 formed that the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's 

 Treasury, on the recommendation of the Development Com- 

 missioners, have sanctioned payment from the Development 

 Fund of a sum not exceeding ^12,000 per annum to be dis- 

 tributed by the Board as Grants to certain Universities and 

 Colleges in England and Wales for the purpose of assisting 

 these Institutions to supply technical advice to farmers and 

 to provide for the investigation of local agricultural problems. 



Nature of the Technical Advice to be Supplied. 



In order that the character of the work covered by this 

 grant may be understood, it may be convenient to refer in 

 the first place to the Memorandum on the Principles and 

 Methods of Rural Education * issued by the Board of Educa- 

 tion, Chapter 9, in which it is stated that : — 



"This work (i.e., the provision of technical information and 

 advice for those engaged in rural industry) is of a kind that 

 should fall partly to county staffs and partly to those of 

 Universities and Agricultural Colleges. It is clear that 

 : advice of two kinds will be in demand in every district ; in 

 j the first place, the kind of advice on the uses of manures, 

 \ the relative merits of feeding stuffs, on the manufacture of 

 j dairy produce, which inexperienced persons constantly 

 require, and which any well-prepared instructor should be 



* To be obtained from Wyman & Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C. Price, $d. ; 

 by post, /\d. 



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