Miscellaneous. 



480d 



[November, 1908- 



only offer to pay these meu for six 

 months, it is no use suggesting a 

 twelve months' course. It is further not 

 possible to f orsee at the time of deput- 

 ing any individual apprentice where he 

 may eventually be employed ; that 

 depends upon who employs him after 

 the course of training is over. 



" The Central Agricultural Committee has not 

 come to any decision as to where the men are 

 to take up their work after training, and it 

 seems to me that this is the first point to be 

 settled." 



(viii) In so far as the apprentice^ 

 deputed by the Central Agricultural 

 Committee are concerned, this point 

 cannot be settled until District Agricul- 

 tural Associations notify whether they 

 will employ any of the men. The Cen- 

 tral Agricultural Committee will, on the 

 completion of the training, notify to all 

 Agricultural Associations that such and 

 such men ppent six months at Gover- 

 nment Agricultural stations and enquire 

 whether any Association is willing to 

 take them. Possibly, the men may 

 not be required by any of the Associa- 

 tions. It is, on the other hand, possible 

 that all may be entertained ; but by 

 whom they will be employed it is 

 not possible to forsee. 



"To .bring a Malayalee from Malabar and train 

 him at Samalkota in Tclugu country seems, to 

 say the least, a bit unusual although this is be- 

 ing actually done." 



"(ix) This remark is probably based 

 on the assumption that the Malayalee 

 apprentice will, on the completion of 

 his training, be employed in Malabar ; 

 but the Malayalee referred Lo, who is 

 obviously T. C. Krishna Kurup, is under- 

 going training at the instance of the 

 Central Agricultural Committee and, as 

 already stated, it is uncertain where 

 lie will be employed. Even granting 

 that one of the Agricultural Associations 

 in Malabar entertains him in its service, 

 the knowledge that he will have gained 

 at Samalkota in regard to the cultivation 

 of sugarcane and jute should be of 

 service to his employers, as there is 

 scope for developing, extending and 

 improving sugarcane cultivation and for 

 introducing the cultivation of jute into 

 the Malabar district. Further there is 

 nothing unusual in getting him trained 

 in Telugu country. As a matter of fact, 

 a Malayalee is running the Pittapur 

 Estate Home-Farm and is doing it 

 satisfactorily. 



" It is quite impossible to carry on the ordinary 

 farm work properly, if the place is infested with 

 unlicensed and irresponsible on-lookers. The men 

 sent for training should be seconded to Government 

 and paid by and punished, if necessary, by Govern- 

 ment officials." 



" (x) There is no question of allowing 

 the Government Agricultural stations to 

 be ' infested with unlicensed and irres- 

 ponsible on-lookers.' Only one or two 

 apprentices at a time are sent to any 

 station: they are 'licensed' to the 

 extent that they have been specially 

 selected by the Central Agricultural 

 Committee, have entered into agree- 

 ments and have been authorised to 

 attend the Agricultural stations, where 

 they are, as stated in the last sentence 

 of paragraph I of B.P., Mis. No. 2925, 

 dated 12th May, 1906, under the complete 

 control of the Government officers, 

 through whom they are paid by the 

 Central Agricultural Committee and by 

 whom they can be punished, if necessary. 

 Far from being mere on-lookers, such 

 men should in fact serve as additional 

 work-men on the stations. 



" The men sent for training should not be 

 allowed to leave (the Agricultural station) until they 

 produce a certificate that they have obtained a 

 thorough grasp of the work." 



" (xi) This suggestion cannot, in the 

 nature of the case, be adopted. No 

 man could secure such a certificate by 

 remaining only two months at ! an 

 Agricultural station and nobody expects 

 such a certificate to be produced by 

 these men. The Agricultural Depart- 

 ment is not expected to guarantee any- 

 thing in the way of perfection, but 

 merely to state that such and such men 

 have spent six months at such and 

 such Agricultural stations, where, in 

 their own interests, it may be hoped 

 that they have made the best use of 

 their opportunities. 



" To turn out a set of officers with a smattering 

 of inferior knowledge will in fact retard agricul- 

 tural progress and bring the Department into 

 disgrace." 



" (xii) The Agricultural Department 

 can incur no disgrace for having allowed 

 these apprentices the chance of gaining 

 some little knowledge at Agricultural 

 stations. Later on, when the College 

 at Coimbatore comes to be established 

 and is in full working order, there will 

 be no trouble about training apprentices, 

 as all candidates for agricultural employ- 

 ment will be required to go through a 

 full and regular course at that College. 



(True Extract.) 



L. D. SWAMIKANNU, 



Acting Secretary." 

 H K. Beauchamp, 

 P. Rajabatna Mudaliab, 



Honorary Secretaries. 



