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PKESIDEM' S ADDKESS — SECTION K. 



In this connexion, I shall draw special attention to the callings of 

 the parents of students who have attended the Roseworthy Agricul- 

 tural College, and which can be summarized as follows: — 



110 



54 

 18 

 14 



4 

 2 



202— 35.2 «'' 



Agi'icultural callings — 



Farmers 

 Pastoralists 

 Vine growers 

 Fruit growers 

 Dairymen 

 Market gardeners 



Ncn-agricultural callings- 

 Business men 

 Civil servants 

 Professional men 

 Artisans 



Apart from a few earlier names, the occupations of which I have 

 been unable to trace, 574 families have supplied Roseworthy 

 College with students since its inception in 1883. Out of this total 

 202 families, or 35.2 per cent., were earning their livelihoods in 

 agricultural callings which have been indicated in detail. Hence, 

 202 purely agricultural families, frequently represented at the 

 college by more i:han one son, have realized the advantages of 

 special technical training, and through their sons have availed 

 themselves of it. That these coiintry lads have benefited per- 

 sonally and individually from this training we can have little 

 doubt; indeed, as one who, in the past, has had much to do with 

 them, I can undertake tO' vouch for the fact. They have had their 

 outlook on life broadened ; thev have been made familiar with new 

 and unsuspected lines of agricultural practice'; they have been 

 taught tO' look beneath the surface, and to' master the broad prin- 

 ciples underlying narrower home practice; and the torch they have 

 received has eventually been carried far and wide throughout the- 

 scattered agricultural districts of the State. And it is this last 

 point, the indirect advantages which country workers derive from 

 agricultural colleges, which I wish specially to stress. 



It is only iii very ecxtraordinary circumstances, and in very 

 exceptional timeK, that the State has much to gain from a com- 

 2>lete revolution in agricultural practice; normally, beneficial 

 changes must come slowly and progressively. For the most part 

 local conditions determine what at the time is, and is not, economi- 

 cally possible, and the common sense and inherited instincts of 

 agricultural workers adopt that line of operations which appears to 



