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(2) The Woman in Relation to the Farm. 



(a) The domestic animals, dairying, rabbits, bees, 



etc. 

 (6) Agriculture (a few underlying principles), the 



soil, manures. 



(3) The Housewife and the Garden. 



(4) The Country Woman and Society, Institutes, 



Clubs, Co-operation, etc. 



This course is given at so-called Low-grade 

 Instruction Centres which are working in Germany 

 and other countries with excellent results. These 

 courses would review, complement, and give a more 

 directly vocational bearing to the practical work 

 already done in the schools. Girls would attend 

 these courses as soon as possible after leaving the 

 elementary school, possibly in the first winter. 



There should also be established a certain number 

 of Farm Schools of a new description which would 

 take children from the age of fourteen on their 

 leaving the elementary school (instead of from the 

 age of sixteen as at present at the existing farm 

 schools) and train them specifically to be agricul- 

 tural settlers in our Dominions. 



There ought indeed to be much closer working 

 relations between education in this country and in 

 our Dominions. In many cases children might be 

 sent on from this or that institution direct to farm 

 or apprenticeship schools in the Dominions. This is 

 a matter of the greatest Imperial and National 

 importance. We cannot develop our lands unless 

 we have people to live upon them and to work them. 



