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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79

Introductory

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Introductory.

The object of issuing in pamphlet form these notes on two of the State Farms of Demonstration and Instruction is to bring prominently under the notice of Agricultural and Pastoral Societies, and also of individual farmers, the great practical value to Agriculture, and to the country as a whole, of the work done at these Institutions.

The writer has been connected with Agriculture and Agricultural journalism for many years in New Zealand, and, viewing the matter entirely from its practical and commercial side, is deeply convinced of the national importance of properly-conducted experimental and demonstration farms in this country, whose material prosperity almost entirely depends upon its primary rural industries.

The farming community ought to take under its special care and championship this development of the functions of the Agricultural Department.

It is with the hope that the remarks contained in these two articles, reprinted from the columns of the "Canterbury Times," may stimulate the public interest in our State Farms that this pamphlet is issued.

June 1913.