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suggests that an appeal should be made to those interested in 
agriculture to provide the necessary money. 
The principle of the whole matter he considers is that farming 
should be taught on a farm that pays, and not on a losing 
concern ; and with sufficient proof of the fact that it was a 
paying concern, perhaps there would be no difficulty in raising 
the money. 
In his remarks on lower agricultural education — that is to 
say, the education of farm-labourers, farm-bailiffs, and peasant 
proprietors — Mr. Jenkins observes that there is no greater want 
in English agriculture at the present time than thoroughly 
reliable and intelligent farm-bailiffs. Whilst landowners abroad 
find no difficulty in cultivating several thousand acres of their 
own land, in England a landlord who has a few hundred acres of 
land thrown upon his own hands is invariably heard to complain 
that he is able to obtain neither rent nor interest of money for 
the same. 
At the present time there exists no machinery in Great 
Britain for the technical instruction of this class except that 
Ifiven by the science teachers under the Science and Art 
Department. Most of the youths, who are sons of small farmers 
and of farm-bailifFs, obtain their general education at a public 
elementary school or at a cheap private school. The difficulties 
of the subject are these, that a small farmer or a farm-bailifF 
would not be willing to keep his son at school longer than 
he was obliged, unless he could see clearly that it would be to 
the boy's advantage. But if he thought he could start him 
in life with a fair prospect of making a good living as a farm- 
bailifF, he would probably be willing to do so. 
Mr. Jenkins, therefore, borrows an idea from the French 
system of farm-schools, and suggests that in each county a 
good farm should be selected, the tenant of which would agree, 
under certain terms, to take agricultural apprentices for two 
or three years ; that a teacher capable of continuing the general 
education of the apprentices by lessons given in the mornings 
and evenings should be attached to each farm, and that a portion 
of the farm labour should be performed by the apprentices. 
The selection of apprentices should be made under an examina- 
tion held annually with the Science and Art Department. 
During their stay at the farm-school the apprentices should be 
compelled to pass an annual examination in practical as well 
as theoretical subjects. Prizes should be given for proficiency, 
and apprentices found deficient should be removed. 
Mr. Jenkins thinks that if " Agriculture " were placed by the 
Government upon the same footing with " Science and Art," 
and such educational farms were subsidised by the State, that 
