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4. While the special functions of the Board of Agriculture 

 will, as above shown, he to deal with and to influence the 

 Agricultural Colleges and other independent Institutions 

 named in the foregoing list, the relations of the Board of 

 Education will, in the main, be with the County and other 

 Local Authorities and such other Bodies as are supplying 

 part of the local system of provision of Public, including 

 Agricultural, Instruction. And it will be the business of the 

 Inspectors of the Board of Education to represent to the 

 County and other Local Authorities the need for continuous 

 development of special provision for Agricultural Education, 

 and to draw attention to the various types and grades of work 

 thus required, particularly as regards the need for a largely 

 increased provision of Farm Schools. The Inter-Depart- 

 mental Committee with the views of the Rural Education 

 Conference before them will give to the Board of Education 

 all the advice and information they can as to types of School, 

 methods of instruction and lines of organisation of instruc- 

 tional staff, most needing to be encouraged in particular parts 

 of the country. 



5. There is, at the same time, an important matter in con- 

 nection with some of the cases comprised in the foregoing- 

 paragraph for which some special arrangement seems desir- 

 able : viz., the provision and efficient maintenance of Farms 

 and Experimental Stations in connection with Farm Schools 

 and such other similar places of Agricultural Instruction as 

 fall within Section 4 above. These Farms and Stations are 

 greatly needed if the educational work of institutions of this 

 type is to be carried on with full efficiency ; and, as it is in 

 the highest degree desirable that such forms of practical work 

 should be kept in close touch with the latest and best develop- 

 ments in practical agriculture, it is believed that such Govern- 

 ment supervision and aid as is made to them should be from 

 the Board of Agriculture. It has, therefore, been arranged 

 that such Parliamentary Grants as may be, or become, avail- 

 able for the establishment and maintenance of the Farms and 

 Stations, and of any experiments or investigations carried on 

 in connection therewith, shall be distributed by the Board 

 of Agriculture : the Grant in respect of the Educational work 

 of the Farm Schools being made by the Board of Education, 

 and all necessary arrangements for maintaining due relation 



