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THE editors of the New Guinea Agricultural Gazette are to be congratulated on the first number (1, No. 1, October 1935. Pp. 50. Rabaul: Department of Agriculture) containingarticles on the cultivation or marketing of five crops of economic importance to New Guinea, besides others on entomology and meteorology. The appearance of the journal is another indication of the indispensability of at least a little science to every planter or agriculturist. Many of the mostisolated countries in the world now issue semi-scientific agricultural periodicals which, since they can scarcely be financially profitable, must be produced in response to a demand for knowledge. The Agricultural Gazette shows that theNew Guinea planters and Agricultural Department are fully alive to the fact that science is as necessary to the prosperity of a small colony as of a highly developed country.
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The New Guinea Agricultural Gazette. Nature 137, 697 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137697b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137697b0