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Instruction should be adapted to the real wants of the region, and 

 the methods of instruction should, above all, look to a development in 

 the student of initiative and spirit of observation. To this end 

 frequent excursions, under the direction of the jjrofessor, to farms of 

 the region to study both technical and economic questions, and the 

 establishuient of regional schools, are recoumiended, the work to be 

 under the supervision of a permanent commission of specialists 

 appointed by the governuient of each country in order to secure the 

 necessary unity of plan and purpose. 



Agricultural journals, societies, and all other agencies interested 

 in agriculture should see to it that the people are better informed as 

 to the agricultural institutions. 



Some instruction in agriculture should be given in all secondary 

 schools, the instruction being combined with the course in natural 

 sciences of these schools. The instruction should as far as possible 

 be given by graduates in agriculture. 



Considering the increasing importance of the role which woman 

 plays in the economic and social rural questions and in the necessity 

 for arresting or retarding the exodus from the country toward the 

 cities, there should be taught in all j'oung girls' boarding schools the 

 application of the natural sciences to agriculture and horticulture. 



The teachers in the country schools should possess a scientific and 

 serious practical knowledge of agriculture. In default of a special 

 section in the nonnal schools they should take a complete agricul- 

 tural course in a high school for domestic economy. A similar course 

 should be obligatory for the teachers who are designed for special 

 agricultural schools. The professional agricultural teaching should 

 be organized upon a serious basis in those educational institutions 

 which receive a certain number of young girls from the country. 

 Considering the good results obtained in the schools of domestic 

 economy in Belgium, in which theoretical instruction is given in the 

 morning and practical instruction in the afternoon, it is recommended 

 that in the interest of hygiene and the popularization of agricultural 

 science the system be generally adopted. 



ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. 



International Af/rmdtm'al Congress of Paris in 1889. — That the 

 entrance examinations to the primary school be based, to a certain 

 extent, upon the instruction given in the practical schools. 



That the courses in the primary schools be modified so as to include 

 more agricultural instruction in the country and more industrial 

 instruction in the cities. 



That the inspectors of agriculture and not the insi)ectors of educa- 

 tion b(> given the sujx'rvision of the primary teachers in all instruction 

 concerning agricultural matters. 



