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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19174, 3 December 1927, Page 11

"The fields for research are everywhere being broadened," said Professor E. J. Iddings, Dean of Agriculture, and director of the agricultural experimental station of, the University of Idaho, United States, who arrived in Auckland by the Ulimaroa after making a study of agricultural conditions in Great Britain, France, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Germany, the Channel Islands, Egypt, Italy, India, Ceylon, and Australia. The professor indicated that the meaning of this development was that agriculture to-day was more closely allied to scientific facts and the trend of economics, the application of which to farming was absolutely necessary for its proper development in the highest technical phases. In England and Scotland, he said, there had been an enlargement of experimental institutions, and the establishment of others. Italy under the Mussolini regime was developing great schemes of agricultural research, and there had been established 30 miles from Borne a 3000-acre farm for the purpose of animal-production study. In Egypt, India, and Australia agricultural, research was likewise proceeding.