The practical work he can learn upon his father's farm during spring and summer, and the technical by continuing his studies during the winter months in a school of agriculture.

The establishment of such winter schools is in contemplation.

But, in the meanwhile, to bring home to farmers the advantages of a first-class agricultural education for their sons, and at the same time to teach these farmers the more practical application of science to agriculture, the Department decided on a preliminary period of Itinerant Instruction.
The teacher difficulty, experienced on all sides of our work, was probably felt more acutely in regard to the specialised teachers of agriculture than in any other connection.

Here it was necessary to take the young men brought up upon farms and possessed of the normal qualifications of the Irish practical farmer.

We then had to make them into teachers by adding to their inherited and home-manufactured capacities a scientific training.