172 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



have intimate knowledge of the hardships 

 attending the hfe of the tiller of the soil— a 

 life alien to those few officials who form 

 the English Board of Agriculture. 



In an office in Upper Merrion Street 

 hangs a map close to the desk occupied by 

 Professor Campbell, the assistant secretary 

 of the Department, which gives one an 

 informative picture of one feature of the 

 Department's work. This map is studded 

 with pins showing the whereabouts of the 

 numerous stallions provided by the De- 

 partment to improve the breed of horses 

 used by the farmers. There is also another 

 map showing the farms on which are kept 

 the bulls and boars sent out to improve the 

 breeds of Irish cattle and pigs; but so thick 

 are these pins upon the ground, so to speak, 

 that little can be seen of the physiography of 

 the Emerald Isle. 



When 1 expressed my admiration of this 

 map to jMr. Campbell, he said to me, " But 

 remember you have come to the worst 

 country in the world to see successful hold- 

 ings. Out of 600,000 small holdings there are 

 200,000 scheduled as uneconomic, of which the 

 occupiers are just beginning to be lifted out 



