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Professional  Training. 
5  Am.  Jour,  Pharm. 
I      Dec,  1921. 
influenced  by  tradition  than  her  younger  sister,  is  indisposed  to 
accept  this  from  other  than  masters  of  gardencraft.  Agriculture, 
taught  to  think  she  breathes  a  more  enlightened  atmosphere,  does 
not  urge  her  technological  advisers  to  undergo  practical  pupilage  in 
farming.  A  prejudice  is  not  always  unhealthy.  Horticulture  es- 
capes the  waste  of  time  and  effort  occasionally  experienced  by  agri- 
culture owing  to  the  consequences  of  defective  tilth  being  mistaken 
for  signs  of  disease.  This  type  of  mischance  is  one  your  profession 
must  guard  against  when  it  comes  to  render  sanitary  science  the 
assistance  it  now  accords  to  medical  practice.  If  the  existing  atti- 
tude of  pharmacy,  as  contrasted  with  that  of  medicine  and  agri- 
culture towards  preliminary  training  in  pure  science  be  maintained, 
the  risk  in  her  case  should  be  small. 
Husbandry,  like  medicine,  thinks  her  practice  calls  only  for  a 
training  in  the  principles  of  the  sciences  that  underlie  its  theory. 
But  while  husbandry  never  imparts  such  a  training  before  profesr 
sional  instruction  begins,  those  who  arrange  her  curricula  are 
divided  in  opinion  as  to  whether  the  course  in  pure  science,  which 
all  regard  as  desirable,  may  accompany  or  should  follow  practical 
pupilage. 
THE  CURRICULA  OF  AGRICULTURAL  AND  HORTICULTURAL  SCHOOLS. 
The  curricula  of  most  schools  of  agriculture  are  well  adapted 
to  the  needs  of  those  who  have  already  mastered  the  craft  of  prac- 
tical farming.  In  some  cases,  however,  they  reveal  a  belief  that 
professional  instruction,  imparted  concurrently  with  a  training  in 
scientific  principles,  may  replace  practical  pupilage.  But  recent  or- 
dinances governing  the  work  of  such  schools  indicate  that  this 
belief  has  begun  to  waver;  entrance  is  to  be  forbidden  in  future  to 
those  who  have  not  already  undergone  a  prescribed  minimum  of 
practical  training. 
The  curricula  of  some  horticultural  schools  seem  also  to  mani- 
fest the  hope  that  adequate  practical  and  sound  scientific  training 
can  be  imparted  simultaneously.  But  in  gardencraft  generally  the 
belief  is  still  held  that  the  first  business  of  the  future  gardener  is 
to  master  his  craft.  Nothing,  it  is  urged,  should  be  permitted  to 
impede  or  interfere  with  practical  pupilage  •  only  when  this  has  been 
completed  may  inculcation  of  the  principles  that  guide  practice  be 
undertaken. 
