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2. Experience at home or in experimental fowl-run attached to 
the school. 
The value of bees as pollinating agents in a garden should be noted. 
Where possible, beehives should be kept in the school garden, and 
practical instruction given on their management. 
A course such as this should be of material help to the small-holder, 
who has, as a rule, a limited income to work with, and needs therefore 
to employ those methods which will give the maximum of success 
and the minimum possibility of failure. He cannot afford to experi- 
ment on his holding ; if he is wise, he will gladly welcome any 
opportunity of doing so without expense to himself. Such an oppor- 
tunity is given in a course of experimental science dealing with plant 
life in all its phases, given by an expert upon the subject. 
