568 Report on Agricultural Education, [dec, 1904.] 



formation may be exchanged by the process of question and 

 answer. 



The provisions made, and the facilities offered, by the Board 

 of Education for the education of those who come within their 

 purview, so far as these provisions and facilities bear upon rural 

 districts, are given in an Appendix, and a summary is also fur- 

 nished of the work in agricultural education undertaken in the 

 several counties of England and Wales. This statement shows 

 the various fields into which the subject of technical education in 

 Rural Economy is divided, and the manner in which the ground 

 is covered in the various counties. Some have a thorough organi- 

 sation, and neglect no subject that may be considered essential 

 to some section or other of the rural population, while others 

 are defective alike in organisation and in educational results. It 

 has been the policy of the Board of Agriculture to exert their 

 influence in the direction of securing effective organisation, and 

 in endeavouring to stimulate local effort to provide educational 

 facilities in conformity with local requirements, and this state- 

 ment is intended to show in a convenient form the directions in 

 which local action requires strengthening. 



