Abstract
AMONG the problems of technical education which County Council have had to face, the most difficult is the bringing home of the importance of scientific training to those engaged in agriculture and in rural industries generally. A study of the results achieved in the various counties very clearly brings out the fact that while considerable progress has been made in manufacturing centres where the practical bearing of science is more or less obvious, the agricultural counties have hitherto failed to show a similar progress as the outcome of their efforts to improve the rural industries. Many causes are contributing in this country to check advancement in rural technical education. The general depression of agriculture, the conservatism and apathy of farmers and landowners, the high cost of carriage of farm produce, and the incompetence of technical instruction committees are among these causes; but it would be out of place to discuss such matters in the columns of a scientific journal, and we are content in admitting that the technical committees in agricultural districts have had a far more difficult task imposed upon them than the committees of urban manufacturing centres have ever been called upon to perform.
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