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IT is sometimes said that agriculture is no subject for internationalism. Indeed, this dictum was not infrequently hurled at those who, after the War, made the first tentative attempts to start or to revive the international handling of agricultural problems. Oblivious of the fact that the produce markets of the great countries were becoming, with a decisive rapidity which was leaving all arguments in the rear, scenes of the most bitter struggles of international competition, the old-fashioned agriculturist was still arguing up to a few years ago— and in a few cases even continues so to argue to-day —that the knowledge and practice of each country are all-sufficient for that country. This point of view has not been without its influence on the research side of the subject. It has certainly affected in no small degree the study of the best means of getting the results of the experiment stations adopted in practice.
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International Aspects of Agriculture. Nature 128, 597–598 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128597a0
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