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Apart from its general educational value, the scheme of rural 

 science work is believed to be specially suitable for boys 

 who hope to proceed to a University College with a view to taking 

 a degree in agricultural science subjects. Although they will 

 have received no instruction in technical farm processes, they 

 have obtained a fair insight into those sciences that are 

 basal to agriculture or indirectly bear on the industry. Agri- 

 cultural scholarships, tenable at a University College, provide a 

 stimulus for further education in the case of students who 

 look to the land for their career. It is the experience of the 

 school that many boys who intend to take up farming at home 

 leave school at the end of their third year, at the age of 15 or 

 16. These boys will have done work specially arranged for 

 them on the school plot, and are exactly the type for whom the 

 more technical instruction of a Farm School or Institute or the 

 University College short courses in agriculture would be suitable. 

 Many are already receiving County Council grants for this 

 purpose. 



The introduction of a rural trend in the various subjects has 

 not, it is believed, interfered in the least with the success — 

 examinational or intrinsic — of pupils of the more academic type. 

 On the contrary, it has contributed to the basis of a good general 

 education, and has tended to make the students more alert, 

 giving them a wider outlook. 



It is felt that one effect of training on the lines indicated will 

 be to give to the pupils, and through them to their parents and 

 a wider public, a fuller realisation of the economic importance 

 of the land — the nation's greatest asset — and a deeper interest 

 in the countryside. Agriculture is the basal and most vital 

 industry of this or any other nation, and is a fascinating subject 

 of study. There is something in the touch of Mother Earth 

 that makes for joy and health and life. 



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In view of the necessity for exercising the greatest economy 

 in the use of sugar at the present time, and the desirability of 



Jam makin when conservm 8 * ne l ar § es t possible amount of 

 • e " f nn t, the following information, contained 

 Sugar is Scarce. in Leaflet No> 354? isglIed by the Ministry, 



is here reprinted : — 



With the present price and short supply, it is necessary to 

 economise considerably in the amount of sugar used for making 

 jam. Glucose can be thoroughly recommended as a sugar 



