458 Grants for Agricultural Research. [sept., 



Subjects of Research. 



In making arrangements for the separate investigation, as 

 far as possible, of each group of allied subjects, the Commis- 

 sioners and the Board have been impressed with the import- 

 ance of securing continuity in work which is necessarily of 

 considerable duration, and at the same time of providing staffs 

 of specialists and experts, who will be permanently engaged 

 on work arising from the investigation of the same group of 

 problems. By this means, concentration and economy of 

 effort will be better secured than it would be if a number of 

 institutions were dealing at the same time with the same group 

 of problems. 



It is neither desirable nor possible to prevent all over- 

 lapping or duplication of work, but it is obviously necessary 

 to proceed on a plan by which research work subsidised from 

 public funds will not be unnecessarily duplicated. It is also 

 desirable to arrange that each problem shall be undertaken 

 by the institution best fitted to deal with it, and usually by 

 the institution which has specially devoted its attention to 

 problems of an allied nature. 



It is also important to avoid the giving of undue attention 

 to one part of the field of agricultural research, to the exclu- 

 sion of other parts which are of equal scientific and economic 

 importance. 



With these considerations in view, it has been arranged 

 that grants should be made for research in the following 

 groups of subjects : — 



(1) Plant Physiology. 



(2) Plant Pathology and Mycology. 



(3) Plant Breeding. 



(4) Fruit Growing, including the practical treatment of 

 plant diseases. 



(5) Plant Nutrition and Soil Problems. 



(6) Animal Nutrition. 



(7) Animal Breeding. 



(8) Animal Pathology. 



(9) Dairying. 



(10) Agricultural Zoology. 



(11) Economics of Agriculture. 



