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I do not think it will ever be possible for many sons of labourers 

 to go on to the Agricultural College ; still the exceptionally 

 clever youth should have the opportunity of doing so, but in 

 the past we have been too apt to think of the exceptional cases 

 and to neglect the importance of raising the general standard. 

 And the continuation day school will prove the easiest way 

 of reaching the sons of labourers ; and when this is once 

 attained, I am convinced we shall see a very great improve- 

 ment in the standard of our agricultural labourers. 



In the main, labourers' sons will continue to learn the tech- 

 nical processes on the farms on which they work — or rather 

 they should do so ; but unfortunately the farmer, as a rule, 

 is a very bad teacher, so that it may prove necessary to develop 

 low-grade centres for agricultural instruction where short 

 courses on the care of animals and the rudiments of agriculture 

 could be given. 



To provide continuation instruction for girls these low- 

 grade centres would be most valuable. They have been 

 started within recent years in Germany, and they do in a 

 measure for the daughters of labourers what the " licoles 

 Menageres Agricoles " do in Belgium for the daughters of 

 the better class of farmers. Supposing the elements of prac- 

 tical home management to be taught in all elementary schools, 

 girls on leaving would go on to the low-grade centre for a 

 three-months' course in what might be described as " Agri- 

 culturized Home Management." 



I. The Housewife. 



{a) Duties of the housewife — moral, social ; principles 



of domestic economy. 

 {b) Instruction relating to infants and children. 

 (c) Hygiene, care of invalids. 



{d) The care of the house — furniture, utensils, etc. 

 {e) Feeding the family, comparative values of foods, 



using the produce of the farm and garden. 

 (/) Cutting out, making, repairing clothes and linen. 

 (g) Washing. 



