112 THE FUTURE OF OUR AGRICULTURE. 



with practical work during the period of academical study 

 has been broken, and Agriculture has gained even a better 

 position as a subject of study. There are at present among 

 the academical institutions for Agriculture in Germany 

 only three or four in which practical teaching is retained. 

 Practice is generally taught — very thoroughly, as we shall 

 see — on the farm. Science is taught in the class-room. 



The idea has been pretty generally adopted. With 

 regard to India, Mr. Wynne Sayer, Assistant to the Agricul- 

 tural Adviser to the Government of India, writes : 



" We think that in India also for the general widening of 

 Education affiliation to a University is desirable. So long as agri- 

 cultural colleges are not affiliated to a University they will not 

 attract boys from the higher classes of Indian society connected 

 with the land. These classes require a true collegiate education 

 centring round Agriculture, not mere training in the details of 

 agricultural work. Where these facilities are provided a fair 

 number of pupils from these classes will be forthcoming, and 

 the men thus trained will take their places as leaders of rural 

 society with a thorough knowledge of what to aim at in the 

 development of their estates." 



This tallies pretty well with what is done in the two 

 great American Commonwealths, from whose educational 

 arrangements in the matter of Agriculture we have something 

 to learn. It seems natural that in the United States Agri- 

 cultural Colleges should have been attached to Universities, 

 or, where this is not possible, given University rank, because 

 the entire United States system of Agricultural Education 

 is admittedly moulded on the German model. It is so, as 

 is frankly confessed, owing to " the apprehension caused 

 by industrial progress in Germany arising from the appli- 

 cation to "industry" (a point for ourselves to note)," a fact 

 brought home by the influx into America of scientifically 

 formed men from Europe," especially from Germany.^ 

 The Americans desired to make themselves independent 

 of their German masters by training their own scientific 

 men. In the adoption of the German system they have 

 exercised great and creditable freedom and judgment, 



1 Mr. Gerald Lightfoot's " Report on Agricultural Education in 

 the United States." 



