852 Report on Technical Education in Agriculture. 
Wales, whose headquarters are at Bangor, has already at work an 
Agricultural Department, which, in addition to providing courses of 
study together with board and residence in the College t itself, 
already includes a travelling dairy, and travelling lecturers on 
agricultural subjects, who give instruction in any localities in their 
own district, which may be prepared to co-operate with the College, 
whose lecturers are ready to suggest and supervise field experiments, 
either for societies or on individual farms. 
4. The Charity Commissioners also have already submitted to 
the Committee and to the Council several schemes which are in- 
tended to provide agricultural sides at schools already existing ; and 
they have on hand similar provisions in other secondary schools, the 
schemes for which are now under consideration. 
5. A portion of the proceeds of the licence duties has been 
allotted by Parliament to the County Councils, with an indication that 
these funds, for the present year at least, may be appropriated in 
aid of technical education. Some difficulties are anticipated as to 
the appropriation of these funds, but it may be reasonably antici- 
pated that in the agricultural counties at all events a portion will 
be allocated to the promotion of technical education in agriculture. 
6. Your Committee endorse the view taken by the Joint 
Committee that a " thorough knowledge of farming must be ob- 
tained upon a farm, and that it cannot be obtained elsewhere." 
They, however, believe that (a) youths under eighteen years of 
age, while still pursuing their usual education, may obtain a very 
great amount of theoretical knowledge in agriculture, which will 
enable them to make a far better use of the practical education 
which they can only obtain upon a farm, and that (6) young men, 
already engaged in the practical work of the farm, may get much 
more enlightened ideas as to the practical part of agriculture, if op- 
portunity be given for affording scientific instruction, and if a class 
of teachers qualified to give such instruction can be provided. 
7. The opportunities for such teaching may be afforded, either by 
the institution of agricultural sides in schools, or by a system which 
has already proved very successful in other branches of study, viz. 
the development of the University Extension Lectures so as to include 
the teaching of the science of agriculture. For these purposes 
grants from Imperial or County funds might well be made (a) to 
establish agricultural sides in schools, (b) to encourage attendance 
at the same by the establishment of scholarships or bursaries for 
youths who might desire to avail themselves of teaching in such 
schools, (c) to provide salaries of teachers and scientific apparatus, 
(d) to assist peripatetic lecturers on agricultural science who would 
give courses of instruction on specified subjects in country districts, 
bringing home to the country towns and villages that information 
which, unfortunately, country youths will not go far to acquire (this 
has been very successful in Wales — (vide Report), (e) to assist the 
Universities or larger educational institutions to establish agricul- 
tural departments which would prepare a class of teachers, and 
would also provide appropriate courses in college for students who 
