COUNTRY LIFE Empire Farming
A new idea is being put into action by the British Association, and it should prove of value to the farmers of the Empire. This association, whose object is the encouragement of science, has from time to time held its annual festival overseas ; but this cannot be done often, and smaller places must be omitted. The new idea is to send out a comparatively small group of scientists to this and that desirable region overseas ; and these men will hold a week of meetings, lecturing on subjects of special interest. In the coming winter this group will probably visit Jamaica and Trinidad. An economist and an agriculturist will be included in the company of lecturers ; and at the moment the problems of production in the West Indies are acute : the banana is threatened by a disease and the cocoa-farming ceases to pay, owing to the immense output of this delectable fruit from the Gold Coast. Time was, and not long ago, that agriculture had no section or sub-section allotted to it in the programme of the British Association.
Previous page
