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(1) THE annual report of the Transvaal Department of Agriculture recently to hand gives a vast amount of interesting information about the department and the work it is doing among the agricultural community of the Transvaal. The agricultural conditions at the time of its formation were about as bad as it was possible for them to be. Animal diseases were rife, and besides the ordinary diseases of the country a number of new ones had been introduced during the war. The harvests had been neglected, consequently there was a shortage of seed corn; indeed, some varieties were almost, if not quite, lost. The land was in the bad state into which it rapidly falls when neglected, and out of which it can only be brought by dint of much skilful labour. Only a strong agricultural department could have met the necessities of the case; a weak one might easily have done a great amount of harm.
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RUSSELL, E. The Transvaal and Indian Departments of Agriculture 1 . Nature 79, 235–236 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079235a0
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