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make it. I will try and be careful to place them with honourable 

 men and good farmerg, hoping that they will so conduct them- 

 selves the first year that the future will be conipai'atively easy to 

 them. 



" With regard to the size of the farms, if I had a son I wished 

 taught farming, I would infinitely prefer putting him with some 

 intelligent, honest, good farmer, owning from 100 to 200 acres of 

 land, who worked himself a portion of the time, and did not de- 

 pend on managers j there the pupil would be intelligently educated 

 and would not see the evtravagant high living that he would see 

 on those large farms of 500 to 1,000 acres." 



The following is from a letter received from our 

 representative in Nebraska, dated September 6th, 1882 : 



" I should have stated that I had met Mr. P , who has a 



farm in N County in this State, at the house of a friend of 



mine, an Englishman, in that county. I was there a week in his 

 company, and believe he was thoroughly pleased with the arrange- 

 ments made for him by you." 



In regard to the advantages offered by some of the 

 Southern States, the following are quoted from official 

 communications : 



The Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of North 

 Carolina writes, August 17th, 1881 : 



" I am instructed by His Excellency Governor Jarvis to express 

 his cordial approbation of the scheme unfolded in your letter ;' he 

 regards it as one at once practical in its nature, and in its design 

 calculated to accomplish great good." 



The Director of the Greological Survey of Kentucky 

 writes, September 3rd, 1881 : 



" I believe you have the right plan, and that much loss and 

 disappointment will be avoided by young Englishmen who will 

 come to this country and remain at work on a farm before invest- 

 ing. I believe that Kentucky offers peculiar advantages for 

 putting in practice such a work. In Central Kentucky the farm- 

 houses are larger and better than I have seen elsewhere in America; 

 the farmers are very intelligent, and are celebrated for their good 

 living. Agriculture is also more diversified, and the farm student 



