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THE article by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer in your issue of March 22 is a fair statement of the position the Home Country should take in the development of agriculture in the Empire at large, and of the necessary training the future experts and researchers in Indian agriculture should receive; and this view, requires pressing upon those responsible for the development of agriculture in our colonies, so that the policy of employing as agricultural experts men with a mere smattering of scientific method, combined with a more or less thorough knowledge of British agriculture, may not be followed. Investigation and careful research are wanted, and the only men who can perform this are those whose sense of proportion and scientific methods of attack have been developed by a systematic training in the sciences having a bearing on agriculture. Agriculture is at once a science, an art, and a business, and the successful agriculturist at home must be a man equipped with an adequate knowledge of all these subjects, combined with a special ability for one or more of them.
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DUNSTAN, M. Agriculture and the Empire. Nature 73, 511 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073511b0
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