1 JANUARY 1921, Page 34

The Council of the National Institute of. Agricultural Botany * which

was founded early in 1919, has issued its first &Toil. The headquarters building at Cambridge is under construction. The Mem farm at St Ives is to be used for raising good seeds, from stocks supplied by the Cambridge Plant Breeding Institute. There is a potato testing station at Ormskirk, with thirty-nine acres of rich land. The Institute will take over the official seed testing station, now at Streatham. The Development Commission has made a grant, and private persons have given land and money, to the Institute which, when it begins work in earnest, may be expected to render the greatest possible service to agriculture. Sweden and Denmark have already led the way.