March, 1912.] 



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Education, 



It wag recognised that it was unsound 

 for the Registrar to act as an Intermedi- 

 ary between societies and the money 

 market, bur, in new areas the Registrar 

 miuht as.sist in supplying funds to 

 societies. it was also admitted that 

 every central banking institution should 

 make its own arrangements for funds. 

 The great difficulty experienced by the 

 village societies was the want of fluidity 

 in the matter of supply of capital, and 

 it was felt that if societies were to take 

 the place of money-lenders, there must 

 be a system by which all the ordinary 

 requirements of the members should be 

 met by the societies at all times The 

 ideal to be aimed at was that every 

 member should have a drawing account 

 with his society ; his society in turn a 

 drawing account with the central Bank- 

 ing institution to which it was affiliated ; 

 and the latter a cash credit account with 

 the Joint Stock Bank. A very satisfac- 

 tory progress was reported in meubers' 

 deposits and local capital, and the im- 

 portance of local capital as forming the 

 bulk of societies' working funds was 

 recognised. 



Father Hoffman gave an interesting 

 account of the progress of the Ranchi 

 Catholic Society, the members of which 

 were Roman Catholic aboriginals. He 

 reported a great increase of membership 



and members' deposits and the working 



capital of the society. 



Rev. Paul Wagner gave an interesting 

 account of the work which he was doing 

 amongst the aboriginals of his mission 

 in Chota Nagpur. The experience of 

 these two workers conclusively proved 

 that work amongst aboriginals was 

 possible only, if there was a provision 

 for close local supervision. 



Amongst other subjects discussed 

 were— (1) A Co-operative Journal for 

 Bengal ; (2) Possibility of introduction of 

 co-operative stores and various forms of 

 agricultural co-operation. 



The whole of the afternoon sitting 

 was taken up with the discussion of the 

 Amended Co-operative Societies' Act 

 which will be introduced in the Council 

 next cold weather. 



Mr. Cumming in summing up the dis- 

 cussion counselled close adherence to 

 co-operative principles, and at the same 

 time deprecated any dogmatism in view 

 of the great diversity of local conditions 

 and circumstances. 



The Conference concluded with a vote 

 of thanks to the Hon. Mr. Cummihg and 

 Mr. Buchan. 



The Chairman and the members of 

 the Conference were photographed by 

 Messrs. T. P. Sen & Co. 



EDUCATION, 



OCCUPATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL 

 STUDENTS AFTER LEAVING 

 COLLEGE. 



(From the Journal of the Board of 

 Agriculture, Vol. 3LV11I., No. 10, 

 January, 1912.) 



Questions are sometimes asked as to 

 the parentage of the agricultural stu- 

 dent, and as to what becomes of the 

 student himself. The Board's Report 

 on the Distribution of Grants for Agr icul- 

 tural Education in 1910-11 furnishes some 

 interesting particulars on this point. 

 The Institutions which are aided by the 

 Board were asked to supply information 



showing the occupation of the parents 

 of these pupils who left during the past 

 three years, and the occupation which 

 the pupils themselves now follow. A 

 summary of the returns is given below, 

 The institutions have been arranged in 

 three groups : (1) Agricultural Colleges 

 situated on or near their own farms and 

 providing residential accommodation for 

 a substantial proportion of, cr for all, 

 their pupils ; (2) University Colleges and 

 other institutions situated in towns and 

 not providing residential accommodation 

 on, or close, to their farms ; (3) Farm 

 Schools providing residential accommo- 

 dation on farms. 



Agricultural Col- 

 leges (7) 



University Colleges 

 and other Insti- 

 tutions (5) 



Farm Schools (3) ... 



Total 



Total 

 Number 

 of 



Occupation of Parents. 



Occupation of Students. 



Students 

 Leaving. 



Farmers. 



Land- 

 owners. 



Others. 



Farmers. 



Land- 

 owners. 



Others. 



1,084 



469 



160 



435 



843 



161* 



60 



384 

 321 4 



279 

 221 



7 

 6 



98 

 94 



310 

 294 



21* 

 2 



53 

 25 



1,769 



969 



173 



627 



1,447 



184* 



138 



* Include a few teachers, &c. 



