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Institutes, and one of the proposed schools is 

 similar to the winter schools such as I have 

 already suggested in these pages — that is, a 

 sixteen to twenty weeks' winter agricultural 

 course for the sons of small farmers who have 

 acquired some practical experience on the land 

 since leaving elementary schools. 



It is, however, the business organiser and 

 marketing facilities that are more wanted than 

 the teacher, and that is why I have laid 

 greater stress on this, the business side of 

 agriculture. Improved methods of culture 

 will follow rapidly as the tiller of the soil 

 obtains greater marketing facilities, and with 

 them access to capital. I have shown how 

 in Ireland agricultural organisation preceded 

 agricultural education and how success in co- 

 operative organisation acted as a stimulus to 

 improved methods of tillage. 



Agriculture is still our greatest industry, 

 producing annually £200,000,000. It is the 

 industry on which every other rests. It is 

 the most ancient and honourable of crafts. 

 Without it none of the arts could flourish. 

 Without it human life would cease. In the 

 stifling atmosphere of our congested cities we 

 have learnt that man cannot reproduce his 



