PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR THE YOUNG.
The advantage of training children living in agricultural Sistricts to properly cultivate the land has been realised in Germany for nearly a century, and much progress is being made. Opportunities are offered ■at well-equipped horticultural centres to landowners who can attend within easy distances of their homes, courses of instruction in forestry, vine culture and fruit-growing, landscape gardening and horticulture, no lesa than lo elementary teachers, farmers, and professional gardeners. Tho latter classea aro assisted by Government grants for expenses and fees when they are unabio themselves to defray the cost of such practical education. A large proportion of elementary village schools, are provided with garden ground where the elder children are trained ji the grafting and management of fruit trees, of vegetables, and of flowers such as are best suited to fche conditions of the particular district.
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Southland Times, Issue 18059, 31 January 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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143PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR THE YOUNG. Southland Times, Issue 18059, 31 January 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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