AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 101 



So far as one can ascertain from a maze of 

 figures dealing with the sums spent by local 

 education authorities and by the Central Board 

 of Agriculture, in 1911-12 there was devoted a 

 sum of about £100,000 to agricultural education 

 in England and Wales, the bulk of it for research 

 work, very little indeed for actual technical 

 education in agriculture. It is now proposed to 

 add some £200,000 a year to the endowment 

 of agricultural education institutions from the 

 Development Fund, and the Department of 

 Agriculture looks forward to having £300,000 

 a year for this purpose " when the schemes 

 already approved are in full operation." The 

 Department of Agriculture comments on this 

 vote : — 



' The State has now placed, for the first 

 time, a large sum for research at the dis- 

 posal of British agriculture, and it is clearly 

 the duty both of the central and local 

 authorities to devise means for applying 

 to practical farming the knowledge pro- 

 vided by workers in research institutes. 

 The purpose of the grants made for research 

 is not in this instance to subsidize scientific 



