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list, the relations of the Board of Education will, in the main, be 

 with the County and other Local Authorities and such other Bodies 

 as are supplying part of the local system of provision of Public, 

 including Agricultural Instruction. And it will be the business of 

 the Inspectors of the Board of Education to represent to the County 

 and other Local Authorities the need for continuous development 

 of special provision for Agricultural Education, and to draw attention 

 to the various types and grades of work thus required, particularly 

 as regards the need for a largely increased provision of Farm 

 Schools. The Inter-departmental Committee with the views of the 

 Rural Education Conference before them will give to the Board 

 of Education all the advice and information they can as to types 

 of School, methods of instruction and lines of organisation of 

 instructional staff, most needing to be encouraged in particular 

 parts of the country. 



5. There is, at the same time, an important matter in connection 

 with some of the cases comprised in the foregoing paragraph for 

 which some special arrangement seems desirable : viz., the provision 

 and efficient maintenance of Farms and Experimental Stations in 

 connection with Farm Schools and such other similar places of 

 Agricultural Instruction as fall within Section 4 above. These Farms 

 and Stations are greatly needed if the educational work of insti- 

 tutions of this type is to be carried on with full efficiency; and, 

 as it is in the highest degree desirable that such forms of practical 

 work should be kept in close touch with the latest and best deve- 

 lopments in practical agriculture, it is believed that such Government 

 supervision and aid as is made to them should be from the Board 

 of Agriculture. It has, therefore, been arranged that such Parlia- 

 mentary Grants as may be, or become, available for the estabishment 

 and maintenance of the Farms and Stations, and of any experi- 

 ments or investigations carried on in connection therewith, shall 

 be distributed by the Board of Agriculture: the Grant in respect 

 of the Educational work of the Farm Schools being made by the 

 Board of Education, and all necessary arrangements for maintaining 

 due relation between the two functions of the Schools and Stations, 

 and for making the corresponding grants, being determined by the 

 two Boards on the report of the Inter-departmental Committee 

 above described. 



6. We believe that the adoption of the foregoing arrangements 

 will be welcomed by all those who are concerned with the deve- 

 lopment and extension of existing arrangements for the supply of 



