Education and Agriculture 



this time forward local authorities should find 

 less difficulty in connection with grants, and in 

 regard to the exact limits of the spheres of the 

 two departments. 



In general terms, all higher technical educa- 

 tion is now clearly under the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, which has a paltry ^25,000 a year at its 

 disposal with which to give grants to our colleges, 

 etc. — a sum which in the United States would 

 be considered an insufficient grant for a single 

 college. 



Special instruction with a rural bias, if given 

 in the elementary schools, comes under the Board 

 of Education, and can earn a grant from it, as 

 also certain practical classes in hedging, ditch- 

 ing, draining, etc., which it is difficult to rank as 

 clearly elementary, can earn a grant from the 

 Board of Education. This Board has far larger 

 funds at its disposal than its sister Board ; as a 

 keen agriculturist wishing to see practical 

 agricultural instruction developed to the full, I 

 care little from which Board the aid comes, so 

 long as the money is spent to the practical 

 benefit of agriculture. 



From the official figures at present available 

 it is difficult to arrive at the total amount of 

 money spent on agricultural instruction, but 

 including grants from the two Boards and the 

 allocation from the Whiskey money it does not 

 appear to be more than ^f 110,000, a wretchedly 



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