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Common Organs. — As for the common educational organs, there are both middle and low 

 class agricultural schools, agriculture and forestry schools, school of animal husbandry horticultural 

 schools and sericultural schools established by prefectures or public bodies each of which aims at 

 training the middle class fanners. 



These are in the country eighty-one middle class schools and one hundred sixty low class 

 schools. Moreover, there are agricultural supplementary schools, which are numbered by 5,061. 

 The object of these schools is to give supplementary education and, also, the primary education 

 regarding agriculture to those farm lads, who have received only the compulsory education. They 

 are mostly maintained by village and town. 



Miscellaneous. — Besides the above-mentioned, there are fifteen local Agricultural institutes, 

 which are directed by the Agricultural and Commercial Department. Further, lectures are given 

 to farmers by agricultural societies and agricultural experimental stations, the purpose being to 

 impart them the courses, which are of great value to their respective districts. 



IV. PROVISIONS RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL 

 ENCOURAGEMENT. 



The organs of the Government has adopted for encouraging agriculture are mainly as follow : — 



A. Agricultural Societies. — An agricultural societies a private judicial person, organised 



under the Agricultural Societies Law with a view to achieving the progress and development 



