PART II 



EDUCATION AND CHINESE AGRICULTURE 



A Report to 

 His Excellency, the Vice-Minister of Education, Peking. 



LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



The Vice-Minister of Education, 

 Peking, China. 



Your Excellency: 



I am herewith transmitting to you, at your request, a report 

 based upon a study made as a member of the China Educational 

 Commission. In making this study I was obliged to consider the 

 whole agricultural problem, the relation of the Government to 

 it, and especially the place of Government agricultural education 

 in helping to solve the problem. Wherever possible I visited 

 Government institutions, and conferred with agricultural 

 experts in the employ of the Government; I have also had the 

 benefit of the criticisms and suggestions of foreign agricultural 

 experts now in China. 



I am authorized by a vote of the China Educational Com- 

 mission to place at your disposal that part of the material thus 

 collected which relates to a statement of the rural problem of 

 China, with suggestions as to how the problem may be met by 

 Government agencies. 



I trust that this brief summary will at least furnish an 

 outline for further consideration of a question so vital to China's 

 future, I am, 



Respectfully, 



KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD. 



Shanghai, 



Jan. 24, 1922 



