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stamped in different classes different abilities and disabilities 

 in such an indelible manner, that the priestly and writer 

 castes who generally go in for high education are ab initio 

 unfit subjects for agricultural training. Their instincts, 

 their habits of body and of mind, are not suitable for agricul- 

 tural occupation. They are eminently fitted for other paths 

 of life, but not for success in agricultural pursuits. It is doubly 

 important therefore for India that the right classes of people 

 should be encouraged to receive agricultural education, that 

 the benefit derived by them may easily filter down to their 

 fellow-caste men in rural tracts. To expect the benefits of 

 agricultural education to filter down to rural tracts from the 

 prospective gardens, farms and plantations that the Bengali 

 or the Mahratta ' gentleman ' may establish after receiving 

 agricultural education of a high order, is I am afraid, a 

 deluded hope. Vernacular education, on the other hand, has 

 spread so far in rural tracts in Bengal, that we can now find 

 many actual cultivators who have passed the Middle Verna 

 cular or even the Normal School Examinations. They 

 are quite capable of receiving a systematic training in 

 agriculture, and these are the men who will have influence 

 among their fellow-castemen. In dealing with agricultural 

 pupils of the cultivator class a great deal of patience, a great 

 deal of sympathy, is at first needed. But when once a head- 

 way has been made among them, agricultural progress will 

 come directly through their agency. It is therefore of great 

 importance to induce, by the offer of suitable scholarships 

 or otherwise, sons of bona fide cultivators who have passed 

 the Middle Vernacular and Normal School Examinations, to 

 come for special agricultural training to a central institu- 

 tion, and then go back to their respective villages. Such 

 men will not feel disappointed if they cannot secure 

 Government appointments, Training a hundred men of 

 this sort by the judicious allotment of a hundred scholar- 

 ships, will have far more effect in ameliorating the agri- 



