CHAPTER V. 



A POLICY OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



There is devoted to agriculture in England a 

 vast amount of knowledge which has come down 

 by tradition from successive generations of 

 farmers ; very little knowledge that is the 

 result of scientific education. The problem of 

 grafting on to the old knowledge fruits of the 

 new culture is one that is being, it seems, con- 

 sidered at the present time, for considerable 

 grants are now being made to advance scien- 

 tific agricultural education. It is a little dim- 

 cult at the moment, therefore, to discuss use- 

 fully the state of agricultural education in 

 England ; for to say — what would be true — that 

 at present there is practically no such education 

 likely to be of general value may be met with 

 the reply : " But sums have been voted for the 

 purpose ; in a year or two all will be changed." 



