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FOR many years past technical education of a more or less efficient kind has been provided for the majority of our leading industries, but for some reason or other our greatest industry of all, and that on which indirectly all the others depend, has been left with scarcely any provision at all. It may be that this is due to the fact that agriculture is the nurseling of one Government Department and education of another, and that under our rigid red-tape-bound system, agriculture has no dealings with education. It gives peculiar pleasure, therefore, to note that this system shows signs of amendment, and one of the first fruits of reform is seen in a memorandum recently issued by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to local authorities in England and Wales offering grants from the newly-established development fund towards the furtherance of technical instruction in agriculture and horticulture.
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ALDRIDGE, W. Agricultural Education . Nature 91, 248 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091248a0
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