2 JO EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



The frugality and excellent economy manifest in all the ar 

 rangements at Templemoyle, are much to be commended. 

 &quot; They discourage the admission to the school of lads from Eng 

 land, especially because the diet has not been usually found as 

 well adapted to English as to Irish habits.&quot; In my opinion, it is 

 much to the credit of the Irish to be satisfied and contented with 

 a meagre diet. To a large portion of the Irish peasantry, it 

 must be a paradise to get even a sufficiency of food to keep 

 their waistbands from a most melancholy collapse. 



This institution has already done much good. In 1843, about 

 sixteen years after its commencement, it was ascertained that 

 most of the young men who had received its benefits were settled 

 in respectable and useful conditions of life. But, according 

 to the present course of studies, the food for the mind is almost 

 as simple and restricted as that for the body. The studies 

 pursued should be greatly extended ; and as the principal 

 expenses are already incurred, and the fixtures, both for the 

 school and the farm, are to a great degree complete, the ad 

 ditional cost for providing instruction, more especially in various 

 branches of natural science, would not be large. 



3. BROOKF1ELD AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



This establishment, about twelve miles from Belfast, which I 

 had also the pleasure of visiting, is an eleemosynary establish 

 ment, supported by the voluntary subscriptions of the religious 

 society of Friends. It seems that many of this society, in 

 Ireland, from one cause or another, had fallen into poverty and 

 habits of neglect ; and their children, many of whom had 

 become orphans, were growing up without the advantage of 

 religious habits, and without that kind superintendence which 

 this remarkable society is accustomed to exercise over those who 

 are connected with it. They took pity upon these stray sheep, 

 which were wandering as it were at large and unprovided for ; 

 and, with a spirit of charity, guided by the soundest judgment 

 and wisdom, they determined to gather as many of them to 

 gether as their means would enable them to support, and, 

 besides giving, them a substantial and useful undertaking, to 

 train them in habits of honest and useful labor, intending to 

 make the products of that labor, as far as practicable, conducive 



