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agriculture to the highest possible degree by a comparatively 

 select body of students, and in the second place to make the 

 results of scientific research known as widely as possible 

 among the farming community by suitable agencies, in order 

 to ensure that this expenditure of public funds shall be a 

 direct benefit to the agriculture of the country. 



The Report states that the successful establishment of the 

 West of Scotland Agricultural College has led to a move- 

 ment for a similar organisation for agricultural teaching and 

 research in the south-east of Scotland. Negotiations are 

 now in progress upon the principle that financial aid from 

 Imperial and national funds must, to a large extent, be 

 dependent upon the appreciation of the work in the various 

 localities concerned, as evidenced by continued local support. 

 The committee think that the most effective way of securing 

 such support as well as of ensuring that the work of each 

 institution shall take the direction most likely to be produc- 

 tive of benefit to the locality, is to entrust its executive 

 management to a body of governors thoroughly representa- 

 tive of the most enlightened opinion on agricultural subjects 

 among both farmers and landowners. To the bodies of 

 governors so constituted the Board would look for advice in 

 all that concerns agricultural education in the districts 

 affected, and they hope ultimately to have at least three such 

 organisations affecting wide districts of Scotland, and afford- 

 ing aid to the agriculture of the district in the form best 

 suited to it. 



Coiigested Districts Board for Scotland* — Report for the year 

 eliding 315/ March, 1901. [Cd. 553.] Price 6\d. 



During the year the Commissioners had under considera- 

 tion various proposals for acquiring land both for migration 

 from congested districts to other parts of Scotland, and also 

 for the settlement of crofters and cottars in holdings near 

 their present abodes within the congested area, and the 

 schemes, which were approved of, promise, it is stated, to 



