Education and Aericulture 



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promotion, and in this way small village schools 

 would be able to secure a succession of good 

 teachers. Surrey, I believe, has already in work- 

 ing order a scheme of registering and promoting 

 the teachers in the council schools, but this as 

 yet cannot be extended to the church schools. 



I have touched in a most cursory manner 

 upon the question of the training of the 

 teachers, but space precludes its fuller develop- 

 ment. 



In considering education as it affects the 

 agricultural industry, it is most important to 

 remember that, in the past, agriculture, more 

 than any other industry, has suffered from the 

 want of directly beneficial instruction. Techni- 

 cal instruction beneficial to mining, engineering, 

 in short to mechanical industries of all kinds, 

 has been developed at great expense, but in 

 very few counties has a reasonable and fair pro- 

 portion of the Whiskey money been allocated 

 for practical instruction beneficial to agricul- 

 ture — such as farm labour classes, bee-keeping, 

 farriery, farm hygiene, hedging, thatching, drain- 

 ing classes, etc., providing instruction in those 

 subjects in which the rising generation of 

 labourer is so deficient. 



It is strange that in entirely rural counties 

 the farmers did not insist from the outset upon 

 a fairer share of that ear-marked money being 

 spent on instruction which the practical farmers 



