Helping The Cultivator-Madras Proposals-Agricultural Department Extension.

An era of new agricultural development in the Madras Presency is proposed by the Government and our special correspondent is in a position to sketch briefly the main lines of the contemplated improvements. In June last, the Government instructed the Director of Agriculture to prepare a detailed programme of reorganisation of the Department and to lay down adequate and definite lines of development and to prepare a programme with refer- ence to which the agricultural budget for this year could be framed bearing in mind, at the same time, the recom- mendations of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. The Director of Agriculture with the assistance of Mr. Munro, J understand, submitted a report last August and the re- commendations contained in it have been accepted by the Government.