AIM OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
Professor E. Shearer, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, the Principal of the University of Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture, in his inaugural address to his students, said the aim behind all agricultural education and research was to ensure such assistance as science can give in agriculture shall become directly vailable to the practical farmer. Knowledge wa s extending in every direction, and nothing was more certain than that the agricultural future amidst ever-increasing competition, was going to lie with those nations which took the fullest advantage of that knowledge Our system of agricultural education was based on sound lines; but present efficiency and future progress were unduly handicapped by meagre financial provision.
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Shannon News, 8 February 1927, Page 2
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122AIM OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION Shannon News, 8 February 1927, Page 2
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