Professor Joseph Bailie ie scall connexion swith "the agrieitural work he hes done Nanking University. The practical training he has there given to young Chinese, he nove weeks of Getremely "intereating articles, vog puree; and bu chart seri which this isthe: first, Re acts fut" the object he hus in view and how it is to be attained, For the past six years I have been, so to speak, paving the way to. begin opening schools in industrial plants in China for the education of apprentices and younger employees, In attempting to do this work, I am trying to eoby whut is being done in England and in general in Europe and America, In China however the conditions are different to what are found western countries in that apprentices here are illiterate, while in the west they are mostly able at! east to read and write, so that the method of approaching' the problem must {0 some extent differ from that, followed outside of China, While working on agricultural education in the University of Nanking, 1 found that those who the reading were not the people that did the cultivation of the land or the planting of trees, and, vit the best way to get at the real workers way through thorough equipped agricultural experts, who besides hi the scientific training, had also the practical experience in thy application of the fic principles they learned at} the Univer These experts go out among the country folk, and. Uring with them, not books, but good. rloughs and selected seeds, and! start to and plough and plant a piece of land, and at harvest reap 4 crop of rain or cotton some 50 cent, some 100 per cent, bigger than that grown in the fields sur= rounding their experimental plot, further argument was needed, Every one in the district wanted to have their Junds " producing such crops next year, and there, was a keniral rush for both good ploughs and selected seeds,
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