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aus paddy, Cabul gram, popat beans, white-linseed, bulbs of 

 African yam, cuttings of cassava and suckers of Sansiviera 

 trifasciata and Fourcroya gigantia. Their books on agricul- 

 ture should not be devoted to teaching, on the one hand, what 

 the pupils and their parents are already quite familiar with, nor, 

 on the other, to attempting to stock the minds of the pupils with 

 abstract notions of botanical physiology and abstruse facts re- 

 garding nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid, leaving to the 

 pupils the hopeless task of making use of the principles they 

 are taught in introducing agricultural improvements in their 

 own way. They should be shown certain definite examples of 

 improvement in their school-gardens, and their teaching 

 should be thoroughly concrete. The school-masters them- 

 selves may be taught agriculture in a more systematic manner 

 in farms attached to Normal Schools, but in village schools 

 should be taught only certain definite facts which will enable 

 the pupils to derive some immediate benefit from their school 

 education. If the school-going son of a cultivator can be of 

 help to his father in his own difficulties, the father and the 

 son will both begin to find out that education and farming 

 are not necessarily antagonistic to each other. If the village 

 school-master can be of help to the raiyat in his own business, 

 the raiyat will think more highly of his own business also, 

 than he is accustomed to think at present. The tendency 

 among cultivators and artizans who attain to some amount 

 of prosperity by following their own ancestral craft, is to 

 shun their craft, to take to money-lending, and to make 

 clerks of their sons. The spread of literary education has 

 been antagonistic to the advancement of arts and industries 

 and it is very important that from the lowest stage children 

 should have education of such a character as may enable 

 them to pursue their ancestral occupations with greater 

 ability and interest, instead of despising such occupations and 

 taking to others which are considered genteel. 



1,454. By the Bengal Government Resolution No i dated 



