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The Agricultural Journal of India January 1919

1919

For just as the crew is judged by the result of the race and as the coach attempts to have his crew in the pink of condition on the day the race is rowed so the teacher attempts to have his class so mentally equipped on the day of the examination that it will show the best advantage. [...] While the judge at the winning"MATERIALS FOR A POLICY OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 3 post of the boat race has no personal influence on the result of the race and through it on the coach and the system of training the judge in the examination in other words the examiner according as he frames his questions and considers the answers to test the general standard of the class or to pick out the bes [...] The latter type of examination forces the standard of the combined teaching to the level of the highest intelligence—too far above the level of the weaker intellects for any system of individual exercise to be of value. [...] The point need hardly be laboured ; the literary nature of the mass of the secondary edcation unfitting the student for practical work of any nature ; the location of the schools in urban surroundings accustoming the student to a social life he cannot obtain at his home and replacing the healthy out-door life of the individual by the artificial sports of the play-ground--of which though a tr [...] The justification of the Agricultural Department must be found in like manner in the improvement of the economic conditions of the country and no doubt the expenditure on the college is justified to some extent by the necessity of training members for that department.
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Frontmatter
i-xiii J. Mackenna view
Woodhouse-Southern Memorial
xiv-xiv J. Mackenna view
Materials for a Policy of Agricultural Education
1-20 H.M. Leake view
Present Position and Future Prospects of the Natural Indigo Industry IV. The Effect of Superphosphate Manuring on the Yield and Quality of the Indigo Plant
21-41 W.A. Davis view
Some of the Problems Arising Out of the Successful Introduction of American Cotton in the Western Punjab
42-48 W. Roberts view
The Consolidation of Agricultural Holdings in the United Provinces
49-64 H. Jevons view
Blast of Paddy
65-70 W. Mcrae view
Exhibits of the Government Agricultural Chemist Madras at the Madras Industrial Exhibition December 1917
71-84 M.R. Sivan view
Lucerne: Why an Irrigated Crop ?
85-90 J. Matson view
The True Sphere of Central Co-Operative Banks
91-100 N.K. Kelkar view
Manures in Their Relation to Soils and Crop Production in the Central Provinces
101-106 D. Clouston view
Notes on the Hydrocyanic Acid Content of Jowar (Andropogon Sorghum)
107-115 Manmathanath Ghosh view
Grafting the Grape-Vine
116-121 H.V. Gole view
Some Observations on Agricultural Work in Egypt America and Japan. III. Japan
122-127 W. Roberts view
Veterinary Research: Some Recent Contributions
128-139 unknown view
Silk and Silkworms in the Far East
140-155 unknown view
Scientific Plant Breeding
156-161 unknown view
The Government’s Standard Silo
162-164 unknown view
An Improved Type of Cotton for the Southern Maratha Country
165-167 G.L. Kottur view
Co-Operative Societies and Marketing of Cotton
168-170 Purshotamdas Thakurdas view
Sugar as a Coagulant for Hevea Latex
171-174 Rudolph Anstead view
Notes
175-184 unknown view
Personal Notes Appointments and Transfers Meetings and Conferences etc
185-188 unknown view
Review
189-194 J.R. Blackwood view
Correspondence
195-198 unknown view
New Books on Agriculture and Allied Subjects
199-201 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iv unknown view

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