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instruction to the needs of the Filipino people. Provision is 

 made for the training of teachers in vocational subjects in the 

 College of Agriculture, in the Normal School, in the Vacation 

 Assembly, and through the supervision of teaching by the officers 

 of the Bureau of Education. 



Several types of schools especially designed to train farmers 

 have been developed. These schools grade from the provincial 

 secondary or intermediate school, with dormitory accommoda- 

 tions for the students and farms of more than 1,000 acres in 

 area to the farm settlement primary schools in which half the 

 time of the pupil is spent in practical field work. 



Instruction in vegetable gardening is a requirement of all the 

 schools of the Islands with the exception of those which give a 

 trade or an industrial course. 



Nursery work is a feature of all intermediate school gardens, 

 and last year almost 50,000 ornamental trees and shrubs and 

 more than this number of fruit trees were propagated by the 

 pupils and distributed among the farmers. Last year there 

 were 3,100 school gardens in the Islands, and 39,900 home 

 gardens conducted by school pupils under direct supervision. 

 Sixty-one thousand boys and 1,800 girls received instruction 

 in gardening. 



Work in domestic science and household arts is also well 

 developed in general. In the congested regions such as Cebu 

 and Siquijor, instruction in household industries should receive 

 the same emphasis that agricultural instruction has received in 

 some of the partly developed agricultural regions of the Phil- 

 ippines. A provincial trade school devoted exclusively to the 

 development of handicraft manufacture should be established 

 in the city of Cebu. All the schools of this and other islands 

 where population is congested should be set to work to create 

 a household industry as a supplement to agriculture. 



THE SOLIDARITY OF THE PEOPLE 



It is unfortunate for any country to be divided by mountains, 

 seas, swamps, lakes, or rivers, or other obstacles to the free 

 intermingling, intertrading, and intermarrying of its people. 

 A solid state or nation, uniform in soil, climate, and occupation, 

 has common needs and all its parts progress together. A people 

 divided into small groups or regions, with different traditions, 

 and with unequal opportunities, develop its different parts at 

 different rates and frequently in different directions. 



Japan, with a backbone of mountains running almost the whole 

 length of the main island, has maintained the solidarity of her 



