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are essential. I venture to think, however, that if our experi- 

 mental farms and research stations are to be of the utmost 

 value to the community, the workers therein should have spent 

 a preliminary period of two years obtaining a practical know- 

 ledge of ordinary farm work. 



Finally, there is the work of the teacher. We have not yet 

 got an Agricultural College for women such as we have in one 

 or two places for Horticulture, but the future may see this hope 

 realised. Meanwhile, women are employed as teachers in dairy 

 and poultry work at various Farm Institutes, and also, in some 

 cases, as travelling teachers under County Councils and in other 

 ways. Here again it is above all things necessary that the 

 teacher should have had thorough practical experience of the 

 daily work of a commercial poultry or dairy farm , in order that 

 the teaching given may be such as it is possible for the pupils 

 to carry out in their everyday life. 



