COUNTRY LIFE
A NEW farming scheme, partly the result of the international urgency expressed at Hot Springs in 1943, comes into operation in Britain this month. It is hoped that this advisory service, as it is to be called, may essentially help to bridge the great gap between the practical farmer and the scientific expert. The traditional farmer has had an unholy horror of the theorist, often with full justification ; but to modern farming scientific research is a necessity. Oddly enough, it has nowhere done more definite service to production than in Palestine, a happy fact in that unhappy country, due in some measure to a Russian expert, trained at Rothamsted, and the owner of a multiple store in England! I should say that the new service will succeed only if the advisers, now to be organised by the Ministry, are, so to say, adopted by one or two successful farmers in the county concerned. They might appear together on a plat- form in one of the Agricultural Brains Trusts that have already proved surprisingly popular. It is announced—in the excellent monthly journal of the Ministry—that a dozen " Husbandry Experimental Farms," primarily in a dozen different shires, are to be set up forthwith, and that ' a body of well-trained (and eventually well-paid) advisers is in being. The scheme will develop slowly, but it is not without good promise.
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