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way, and that time and experience alone would reveal the best 

 methods to adopt in the varying circumstances that would be met 

 with. We propose now to describe the work of the Department 

 generally, leaving the reader to gather the details from the other 

 sections of this Eeport. 



Agricultural Instruction 



The Department had two objects in view in its educational 

 policy. It had to educate the present generation as far as it was 

 capable of receiving education, so that it might be the better able 

 to compete in the markets of the world ; and it had to devise a 



"ORMALIE," PREMIUM THOROUGHBRED (BY " ORME "), AT DARRARA FARM 

 SCHOOL, CLONAKILTY 



system of education which would enable the Irish farmer of the 

 future to compete on favourable terms with farmers anywhere. 

 It called in the itinerant instructor to accomplish the first object, 

 and it took command of the education of Ireland so far as 

 applicable to agriculture, so that it might accomplish the second 

 object. We have outlined its educational policy in the article on 

 "' Agricultural Education." 



Technical Instruction 



Just as agricultural instruction aims at preparing the youth of 

 Ireland for work on the farms of Ireland, technical instruction 

 aims at preparing them for carrying on subsidiary and rural 

 industries, with the view of making the uneconomic holdings of 



