Need for Highly Trained Men for Agricultural Service London, Mar, 28.
The Imperial Agricultural Research Conference which sat in London last October and then made tour of Britain has now made its report, It recommends the creation of an Empire chain of agricultural research stations, the creation the United -Kingdom of cleating-houses of information in agriculture al science to serve the whole Empire and the recruitment, training and inter-change of scientific workers in agriculture for the whole Empire 'The stations ed are Quecnstand, Ceylon, East Afric West Africa and Malaya, ten high qualified mon to be the' minimum Apart from capital expenditure, says the report, the annual maintenance would be £20,000 for each station, The report emphasizes the need for highly trained men for colonial agricultural service and suscgests the founding of scholarships to promote agriculture.
The report also recommends the establishment of "correspondence interes" and bureaux as smaller-scale clearing-stations, the funds for which, amounting to £20,000 anually, should be administered by a body on which the Governments of the Dominions and India would be represented—Reuter,
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