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to reward it by wages, or by a share of the products of such 

 labor, is a subject which will require much consideration j but 

 this mode seems to present the only alternative. 



The large number of students two hundred to be pro 

 vided for, seems to me to present another serious difficulty in the 

 case. If any thing like a military discipline could be introduced 

 among them, two thousand might be managed as easily as two 

 hundred. As far as concerns their literary or scholastic improve 

 ment, the number presents no impediment in the way of their 

 instruction by lectures or recitations ; but when with this is to 

 be combined the management of the farm by the personal labor 

 of the pupils, a number so large, or indeed half that number, 

 must be found exceedingly difficult of management.. At the 

 Glasnevin school, the boys are regular apprentices to the farmer, 

 and their work for certain hours of the day is compulsory. The 

 schoolmasters, who come to the farm for instruction, come 

 merely as spectators, and put their hands to the work, or not, 

 as they please. The whole establishment, if indeed it were four 

 times as large as it is, would not, under these circumstances, be 

 beyond the personal superintendence of a single efficient man 

 ager. At Templemoyle, the number is limited to seventy, the 

 farm is much more extensive than at Glasnevin, and the labor 

 for half the day is compulsory. As the pupils are almost 

 entirely drawn from the poorest classes, and are persons who 

 must depend for their success in life wholly upon their own 

 efforts, they require no other stimulus to exertion. At Ciren- 

 cester, the pupils may be divided into two classes those who 

 work, and are allowed in some form a compensation for their 

 labor : and those who are not required or expected to labor, and 

 pay an extra price for the exemption. Such an arrangement 

 would have many disadvantages, and would be ill adapted to the 

 condition of society in the United States. The number of two 

 hundred seems to me quite too large, and unmanageable with 

 any view to the advantageous application of their labor, if that 

 labor is to be voluntary. 



In Scotland, the practical part of farming is learned by young 

 men going to reside one or two years, or for a suitable length of 

 time, with an intelligent and experienced farmer. In such case, 

 the fee paid is about one hundred pounds, or five hundred dollars, 

 a year ; and for this the apprentice is received into the family, 



