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5. Books. The Council could also assist in arranging for 

 the translation of foreign books text-books and reference 

 books, in the agricultural field; for the compilation of Chinese 

 literature on the subject of agriculture; and possibly for the 

 writing of new books in Chinese and by the'Chinese. 



6. Co-operation with the Government. It is peculiarly im- 

 portant in agricultural education that there be the closest 

 possible co-operation between the Governmental and non- 

 Governmental institutions. In order to furnish a background 

 for the agricultural missionaries in making their own plans and 

 for discussing co-operation; it may be well to give space here to 

 some facts and opinions about Government agricultural educa- 

 tion made available by one of the most alert and aggressive of 

 the Government agricultural educators. 



" The present system of agricultural education in China was 

 adopted from Japan about seventeen years ago. It has four 

 kinds of agricultural schools, namely, the agricultural college 

 (3 yrs.), agricultural junior college (3 yrs.), agricultural middle 

 school (3 yrs. ) and agricultural primary school (3 yrs. ) . The 

 Senior and Junior colleges are much the same so far as the aim 

 and courses are concerned, and differ chiefly in requirements 

 for admission. The Junior College gives no degree for gradu- 

 ation. There is at present no government Senior agricultural 

 college in China except the one which is newly organized in 

 Southeastern University; this college has a system of its own. 

 There are seven agricultural Junior Colleges at present in 

 China. The following table gives some data collected in the 

 year of 1918: 



Name of College n f T ^ 8 Budgets 



sudents 



Peking Ag. Junior College .... 171 21 $91,200 



Chi-te Ag. Junior College ...... 182 



Shantung Ag. Junior College . . 263 



Honan Ag. Junior College ...... 158 14 $32, 734 



Shansi Ag. Junior College .... 229 $66,000 



Szechuen Ag. Junior College .. 127 $73,853 



" Many think that the courses of studies are altogether too 

 general with too much " little of everything " and too little of 

 one thing. The colleges have no elective system and students 

 are required to pass all the courses named in the catalogue. 

 Since the number of courses to be studied is over 36 and 



