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craftsmanship, it is necessary to formulate a 

 land policy which will give every young man a 

 chance to employ his newly-acquired know- 

 ledsfe for his own benefit rather than for the 

 benefit of a farmer. If he be a woodman 

 small holder, such as we see at Winterslow 

 and at Far Forest, let him be taught how to 

 turn a rake-handle, how to punch out the teeth 

 for the rake, how to turn spokes for a wheel, 

 how to repair and paint a cart, how to make 

 a field-gate, and how to build a shed or a dairy, 

 so that much work now sent away to urban 

 centres, and creating an unhealthy environ- 

 ment, be done in the heart of the country, and 

 performed with as great a skill as is to be 

 found in the best of urban workshops. 



The village smithy should glow wdth greater 

 brilliance in the life of the country people, 

 and 1 think it would had our country black- 

 smiths a better training. Any one who has 

 worked in fields with the hoe, the scythe, 

 or the fork ; or in the wood with the adze, 

 the hook, the axe, the old round-nosed bit, 

 the punyard, or the hawk's-bill, will know 

 how necessary it is to get tools shaped 

 and sharpened to that exact angle and edge 

 necessary to work with ease on the peculiar 



