20 A UNIONIST AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



how to make the most money out of the farms — 

 small as well as large. No doubt certain farms 

 have been in the past., or are to-day, admirably 

 run, and large profits made. But the general 

 adoption of the methods which made these indi- 

 vidual successes has not followed : and it is the 

 system of demonstration farms which alone will 

 secure that general levelling up of our methods 

 of farming. Such farms may also be utilised as 

 instructional or apprenticeship farms for the train- 

 ing of promising labourers' sons of fourteen to 

 eighteen years old, as is being done to-day by the 

 Government of New South Wales. There is no 

 reason why such a farm should not be within the 

 reach of every farmer in England. And, in truth, 

 it is essential we should have such a system of 

 demonstration farms if we are to utilise to the 

 full the very valuable services of the Agricultural 

 Organisers now being appointed by the County 

 Councils throughout England. 



The question of this adult instruction is closely 

 connected with that of small holdings, and will 

 be referred to again under that head. 



Agricultural Education and Govewiment Grants 



The grants in aid of agricultural education are 

 wholly inadequate, and are again evidence of 

 the systematic way in which injustice is con- 

 tinually the lot of agriculture. The Central 

 Authority contributes less than 15 per cent. 



