SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
EMPIRE AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS EIGHT NEW BUREAUX RECOMMENDED (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 13. In pursuance of a recommendation made at the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference in -1927, meetings attended by representatives of various parts of the Empire have recently been held in London and proposals formulated are now before the Governments. They should, a adopted, have furreaching results in furtherance in tlie Empire of scientific agricultural research. Tlie establishment of eight new bureaux, or clearing houses of information, is recommended, each to deal witli a separate branch of agricultural science, and all to lie financed from a common fund formed by contributions from the different Governments. The various bureaux would be attached to the existing research institutes, the governing bodies of which have already accepted the general principle of tlie proposal. They would deal witli such matters as soil science, animal nutrition, health, animal genetics, agricultural parasitology, plant genetics of crops and herbage, plants, and plant production. The Government of South Africa has agreed that tlie veterinary research station at Onderstepoort shall serve as a link in the Imuerittl Stations.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 9
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