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may, no doubt, employ them in various ways, but they will 

 not be able to make much use of their special training in 

 agriculture, except in agricultural appointments proper. 



1,457. The principle already recognised for Primary and 

 Secondary Schools, can be recognised also for High Schools 

 and Colleges, and permission may be granted to all mofussil 

 Schools and Colleges to teach agriculture in place of Physics 

 or Chemistry. It is less expensive organising gardens and 

 farms in connection with mofussil Colleges and High Schools 

 than making an adequate arrangement for teaching Chemis- 

 try and Physics, and many Colleges and High Schools may 

 avail themselves of the permission right off by employing 

 passed students of the Sibpur agricultural classes, to teach Agri- 

 culture in place of Chemistry and Physics. However meagre 

 the arrangement that may be made by a mofussil school or 

 college for teaching Agriculture, this subject cannot possi- 

 bly be worse taught than Physics or Chemistry is at present. 

 Facts of agricultural science abound in the mofussil, and if 

 the teacher employed has been himself taught in a practical 

 manner, he will not need much outlay of money to impart 

 sound knowledge of such facts and the principles under 

 lying them, to his pupils. There cannot, in other words, 

 be such occasion for cramming in the case of agriculture, as 

 there is in the case of Chemistry and Physics, in the 

 case of mofussil schools and colleges. In course of time, 

 specimens of rocks, minerals, crops, manures, economic 

 products, insect and fungus pests, will accumulate, if the 

 teacher does his duty, and the subject will be always better 

 and better taught. In the case of Chemistry and Physics, 

 an opposite tendency is often noticed in mofussil colleges. 

 A sort of a laboratory is fitted up at, what is regarded as, great 

 cost, and there is unwillingness on the part of the College 

 authorities to replace implements and chemicals as they get 

 broken or used up. Some agricultural implements must be 

 bought, but their working can be shown with hired bullocks, 



