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University) are judiciously employed, they can supply all 

 the special agricultural agency needed for developing the 

 educational and experimental works under Government. The 

 passed men of Sibpur may be employed in charge of farms 

 attached to the Normal Schools which should form the centres 

 of that form of agricultural education which should be im- 

 parted in the different vernaculars of the province. The 

 practical work of the farms can then be conducted under 

 those conditions under which agriculturists have to work 

 in the different parts of these Provinces. The methods 

 or staples that may be introduced with success at Sibpur, 

 -may not answer for Hazaribagh, or for Kalimpang, or for 

 Cuttack. Men trained in scientific principles of agricul- 

 ture will be able to adopt new methods suited to the con- 

 ditions and environments under which they work, and what 

 village school-masters should be taught are not so much 

 the principles or the theories, but concrete facts regarding 

 improvements that are feasible in their own particular localities. 

 At the School of Agriculture at Nagpur, village school-masters 

 are given training in agriculture for a period of six months 

 only (irftlusive of holidays and vacation). In 6 months or 

 one year, these men can be taught to advantage only certain 

 new methods, and if they go back to tbeir villages or village 

 schools with seeds and cuttings of half a dozen new and 

 valuable staples, one or two new implements, and with their 

 minds stocked with various useful information regarding the 

 manner of pickling seed, of avoiding insect and fungus 

 pests, of avoiding the effects of drought or inundation, their 

 training will be directly beneficial in introducing improve- 

 ments in the villages in which they will be employed, by 

 means of school-gardens. The knowledge communicated 

 through text-books by means of object-lessons in the school- 

 garden, is bound to spread in a real manner. The pupils 

 will be naturally anxious, for instance, to get from their 

 school-garden seeds of such valuable staples as the fine 



