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be educated in agricultural teclinology. He is the trustee 

 on behalf of the nation for the proper management of the 

 land under his control, and his sons will have ultimately 

 to take his place, and, meanwhile, must act as his deputy. 

 The exact type of education that is best suited to the land- 

 owner or his son has yet to be evolved, but it cannot possibly 

 be evolved without the landowner's active participation. 

 If the landowner's sons came to the University in sufficient 

 numbers, the type of education given would adjust itself 

 to suit their needs. Further, the bailiffs appointed by the 

 landowners to manage some part of their estate should be 

 better paid and better educated men, who would be in a 

 position to set an example to the tenant farmers Agriculture 

 possesses the great disadvantage of being situated away 

 from the centres where much of the education is given, but, 

 as it is in the interests of the country that agriculture should 

 be advanced, it is necessary that money and energy should 

 be expended upon rural schools, even if the expenditure 

 appears out of proportion to the number of those attending. 

 It is difficult to form any very general opinion as to how 

 much of the energy expended on agricultural education 

 has so far produced direct results. I^ike all other teachers, 

 those engaged in teaching agriculture cannot possibly keep 

 in touch with the after-history of all their pupils. It is, 

 however, possible to compile a list of those that one does 

 keep in contact with, and assume that those one loses touch 

 with exhibit the same ratio as those one knows. The 

 Armstrong College Agricultural Students' Association was 

 originally founded for the purpose of keeping in touch with 

 old students, and the latest published proceedings of that 

 Association show that, of the 164 members who have kept 

 in contact with the Association, there are 70 known to be 

 farming, there are 9 known to have received an agricultural 

 education and known not to be farming, there are 19 who 

 were not educated in agricultural subjects, but who are now 

 taking some part in assisting agriculture. The term " farm- 

 ing " as given in the above, includes those who are managmg 

 farms on somebody else's account as well as those who are 



