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be utilized in agricultural work. The village elders may become 

 a tower of strength in this enterprise of adult education. 



12. Girls and Women in relation to Agricultural Educa- 

 tion. In China women do less farm work than in many Euro- 

 pean countries. Household maintenance and household indus- 

 tries seem to be the chief occupation for women. There is more 

 likelihood that the education of girls in farm villages will be 

 neglected than in the cities. There are many difficulties in the 

 way of giving as wholesome an occupational education to girls 

 as to boys, especially in the lower grades; the vocational enter- 

 prise is more uncertain. But this ought not to blind us to^the 

 importance of trying to find a solution of this problem because 

 (1) general intelligence is determined as much by the women 

 as by the men. It is probable, indeed, that superstitions are 

 kept alive by the women fully as much as by the men. It is 

 probable also that if as many girls as boys could be taught to 

 read more of them might be induced to keep up the habit of 

 reading; (2) the care of the home and the proper mothering of 

 children occupy too prominent a place in civilization to need any 

 argument on behalf of education in these lines. Here ignorance 

 brings in its train terrible social consequences; (3) household 

 industries will for generations be a part of the farm village and 

 farm home, and they should be recognized in any scheme of 

 education for village girls and women. 



13. Investigation. Underlying all effort in agricultural 

 education and precedent to substantial agricultural progress, 

 stands the need of a system of investigation into all the aspects 

 of the rural problem as outlined, technical, scientific, economic, 

 social. The should be ample provision for, 



(1) Genuine scientific research, in the economic and social 

 fields as well as in the physical and biological sciences. 



(2) Experiments, to see how the principles will apply in 

 actual operation under existing conditions. 



(3) Tests, by the multitude, in order to adapt applications 

 to meet varying conditions of soil and climate. 



Farmers cannot be given good advice until the experts 

 know the truth. Investigation reveals the truth. Every agri- 

 cultural college and middle school should be well equipped for 

 investigation into the real problems the farmers have to face. 



14. World Agriculture. The day has come when each 

 country must consider its agriculture in relation to the agricul- 



