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sary instruction can be best given in centralised 

 continuation day schools, which children would 

 attend either two afternoons or two mornings in 

 the week. 1 In thinly populated districts the in- 

 struction might be given by travelling teachers. 



(d) Adult Education. — Instruction for the adult 

 agriculturist must also be developed in every 

 direction. In the past it was designed too 

 much for the large farmer, and too little thought 

 was eiven to the small farmer and labourer. 

 It was also expected that the farmer would 

 come to education, whereas it must be realised 

 that education must be brought to the farmer. 



Demonstration farms could, and must, be made 

 to play a very important part in such education. 

 The demonstration farm is an institution distinct 

 from the experimental farm. The latter is a 

 purely scientific institution for the development 

 of agricultural knowledge. The former is in- 

 tended to supply a full demonstration of scientific 

 and up-to-date methods applied on a commercial 

 scale at a farm of reasonable size. 



In every district there are farms which are not 

 paying anything like so well as they might be 

 made to pay if modern knowledge of cropping, 

 administration, and machinery were applied. 

 The object of the demonstration farm is to 

 demonstrate these better methods applied in 

 practice : in other words, to show in each district 



1 See Report of Rural Education Conference, 191 1, Cil. 5774, par. 16. 



