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WE have received from the director a copy of the annual report of the Transvaal Department of Agriculture for the year 1905–6. The department was formed soon after the close of the war, and was placed under the charge of Mr. F. B. Smith, who had been traned at Cambridge and had gained experience as an agriculturist at Wye College, of which he was for some years the vice-principal. On his arrival in the Mr. Smith gathered round him a band of zealousl and competent workers, and organised the new department on American lines, assigning the work to a number of “divisions.” Each of these, while independent and under the charge of separate heads, was kept in close touch with the work of the other divisions through the director of the department and his office staff.
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The Transvaal Department of Agriculture . Nature 76, 425–426 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076425b0
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