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AGRICULTURAL TRAINING AND THE EDUCATION
OF THE RURAL POPULATION BY MEANS OF THE
FILM IN URUGUAY
{from the Spanish)
The Report of the Information and Training Section of the Uruguay Direction of Agriculture gives a better idea than any other document could afford us of the results achieved during its first working year by the travelling cinema service organized by the said department in the rural districts of Uruguay. We have pleasure in publishing herewith the text of this report.
The travelling cinemas of this Department have accomplished their first year's work. The results obtained surpass our expectations. In this Report we propose to deal more particularly with the work done in the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandu, de Rocas, Canelones and Montevideo.
It is not easy to give an adequate idea of the efficacy of this form of teaching, which not only arouses the interest of the farmers in the different systems of cultivation and brings before them the advantages of modern methods, but is also a practical means of education and an auxiliary to the instruction imparted in the rural schools. In addition to this, the cinema, which was almost unknown to the country children and indeed to numbers of grownup persons in the interior departments — that is to say those nearest to the Capital — offers them an attraction that is conducive to the happiest results.
Thus the Direction of Agriculture — while promoting the diffusion of technical farm training — accomplishes at the same time an educational mission. Our regional agronomists and all those in a position to judge of its truly extraordinary resulcs, declare with good reason that it would take a year to inculcate by any other method the elements of knowledge which our rural
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