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THE reports of the Development Commission show how great a stimulus the Development Fund has been to research in agriculture and horticulture since its introduction in 1911. Grants-in-aid prior to this were dispensed with a meagre hand, hence major investigations requiring a large equipment and manifold repetition, as in the case of animal diseases, could scarcely be carried on. This eighteenth report conveys, however, an impression that the progeny of the Fund have become too numerous, and that the expansion inevitable in scientific investigations has outrun the capacity of the Fund. Thus large supplementary grants have been given by the Empire Marketing Board to the Welsh and Scottish Plant Breeding Stations for buildings, etc., to research in woollen industries, and to agricultural economics research at Oxford.
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"Development Commission. Report of the Development Commissioners for the year ended March 31, 1928." (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1928.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Development Commission Report, 1927–281. Nature 123, 31–32 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123031a0
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