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more closely allied agricultural institutions. The extent to 

 which the Bureau of Education has gone into the field of agri- 

 cultural education and development, however, makes it very 

 important that the closest cooperation be maintained. 



The Bureau of Education with its organization of teachers 

 and its close touch with the young people of the Islands is in 

 a position to disseminate information much more rapidly and 

 cheaply than is any other organization in the Islands. 



The school gardens of the Bureau afford a splendid opportun- 

 ity finallj' to try out in different regions plants and animals 

 of undoubted commercial promise. The school gardens and 

 farms also afford the best possible means of introducing new 

 plants and methods into a community. It should be understood, 

 however, that these gardens and farms are not test grounds 

 and experiment stations. Experimental work at best yields but 

 a small proportion of successes and a large proportion of fail- 

 ures. School children sow seeds and cultivate crops in the full 

 confidence of an abundant yield, and it would be disastrous to 

 the entire system of education to have these children repeteadly 

 or even frequently disappointed in the harvest. 



The Bureau of Education conducts elaborate tests of crops 

 in all the provinces and is accumulating valuable data regarding 

 the behavior of these crops under different conditions of soil 

 and climate. Except as this information is helpful in teaching 

 the children who come to these schools, it is of little value unless 

 the Bureau of Education and the Bureau of Agriculture co- 

 operate to bring this knowledge to the people. 



Therefore, all the information developed on the school gardens 

 and grounds should be available to the officers of the Bureau of 

 Agriculture and the Agricultural College. An officer of one of 

 these institutions should visit the principal school grounds and 

 farms at the most opportune time each year for the purpose 

 of studying the character of the different crops grown there. 

 The officer should have access at all times to the records of the 

 yields and to the observations and notes of the teachers concern- 

 ing the crops grown in their gardens. This does not mean to 

 suggest that the representative of the Bureau of Agriculture 

 or of the Agricultural College should exercise any control over 

 these gardens. Indeed, it should be clearly recognized that the 

 gardens and farms are a part of the teaching machinery of the 

 Bureau of Education and that the cooperation of the Bureau 

 of Agriculture and the Agricultural College is maintained wholly 

 with a view of helping to make them successful and most helpful 

 to the school children and to the farmers. 



