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clear lesson of experience in all the great agricultural countries of the 

 world." But he cautions that a long time is required t<» realize on 

 educational work-, especially when the necessary force and the means 

 for training such a force are lacking. 



There is declared to be do State in the commonwealth so dependent 

 on the development of intensive agriculture as Victoria: hence it is 

 argued that 'education in agriculture is of prime importance to it. 

 Unlike the adjoining States it has no huge area of crown Lands to 

 dispose of for the settlers of the future. It is by far the most densely 

 populated State, and land value- are relatively higher than in any 

 other. Hence intensive culture and diversification are pointed t<> us 

 the chief avenues of progress, and these naturally lend special im- 

 portance to education. 



A lesson cited from American experience i< that "no matter from 



what angle the problem of agricultural education be viewed, it ! 



Bolves n-elf ultimately into the problem <»f providing a sufficiency of 

 trained teachers, agricultural specialists, and extension workers, and 

 using them as unit- in an organized scheme of instruction, investiga- 

 tion, and 'on." It took this country a generation or more i,> 

 learn this, hut it i- one of the most fundamental lessons out of our 

 experience, and it will he a saving of time and disappointment if it 

 can he profited by in newer countrii 



With a \ iew to training such a corps of workers, suggestions arc 

 offered for modifying and strengthening the course and facilil 

 in agriculture of the university at Melbourne. The provision 

 present i- held to he wholly inadequate to the modern ideas of colle{ 

 teaching, and until it can he enlarged the suggestion is offered that 

 the stafl of the Department of Agriculture hi- used and the facilil 

 of the Werribee Research farm or the Dookie Agricultural ("oil. 

 employed for the i try practical work. Scholarships in Amer- 



ican institutions are advocated to provide trained specialists in tech- 

 nical subj : and to encourage more men to prepare for this field 

 the insurance of larger emoluments for services is urged. In this 

 connection it is noted that the university council has asked that the 

 Government appoint sil graduate.- annually for a pcii. >d of five 

 years at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a \« ar. 



Comparing the two agricultural colleges of Victoria with th< 



in this country, it i- shown that they differ fundamentally and that 

 the former are really vocational BChools giving a- much attention to 



acquiring manual -kill and dexterity a- to technical and scientific 

 training. The writer explains that "the Americans emphasise the 



fact that the true function of a college is to teach why thing- ate 

 done rather than how they should he done; " and that in the American 



colleges " practically the whole time is devoted to U chnical and scien- 

 tific training and subjects which make for good citizenship.*' 



