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commiss'on. There is no appeal from the minister's decision on either 

 administrative or legal points. 



4. TILE TECHNICAL EDUCATION OF PEASANTS. ^G^zzMa, Ufficiale del Regno W Italia 

 Rome, no. 240, 11 October 191 7. 



Among recent decrees for the encouragement of agriculture one dated 

 9 September 1917 (no. 1595), which provides for the technical education of 

 adult p<;asants, should be mentiojned. It provides that in every province the 

 provincial commission of agriculture shall arrange for the organization of 

 sucb education. Executive duties and instruction are entrusted toanfli^Aoc; 

 comndttee of three or five members to be nominated within this commission. 

 Such comrmttee will comprise the director of the ambulant chair of agri- 

 culture or his substitute who will be secretary- reporter, and if the directors 

 of the provincial institutions of agricultural education do not belong to the 

 committee they will be added to it. In order to perform its task, as we have 

 defined it, the provincial commission, bearing in mind the needs of agricul- 

 ture, will employ the following means : a) temporary practical courses 

 on local crops ; b) temporary practical courses on agricultural industries ; 

 c) temporary courses on the use of agricultural mai:hinery ; d) temporary 

 courses on the practice of rural and forest industries ; c) temporary courses 

 for women on domestic economy and agricultural industries ; /) practising 

 periods in farms or other establishments. The provincial commission can 

 further use other direct or indirect means suited to its end. The super- 

 vision of the technical education of adult peasants belongs to the Ministry 

 of Agriculture. 



