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BOTH the need and the difficulty of instructing the farmer in the practical results of scientific research are well appreciated by many agricultural authorities, but few seem to have been so enterprising as the Bacon Development Board, which has sent to us some specimens of its recent publications. The Board has realized that it is at least as important to 'put over' new information to those concerned with advising and educating the farmer as to approach him directly. The agricultural county organizer, like many other expert technical men, is far too busy to read all the original literature, to select from it and make the necessary summaries, and it must therefore be a great boon to him to receive ready-made such summaries and abstracts as are now provided by the research department of the Bacon Development Board. These abstracts, which are issued yearly by the Board in the form of a report, are exceedingly well done: clear, concise and well selected. There are only about one hundred of them, but they are all to the point and make attractive reading, even to the non-expert. Included in the volume (Report No. 7, Selected Abstracts on Pig Production, Bacon Development Board. Sept., 1937, price 2s. 6d. post paid) are a thumbnail summary of recent developments, a classified table of contents, and lists of the publications of the Board and of the journals from which the abstracts have been made. Reprints of two outstandingly important scientific papers on pig production have been circulated, as well as brochures on round-worm (Ascaris lumbricoides) and the ineconomy of feeding too much protein to pigs. These brochures are not written to 'boost' any product or to subserve any private gain, and therefore they are far more likely to hit the mark than the propaganda efforts of commercial undertakings.
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Agricultural Education. Nature 140, 965 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140965b0
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