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There are several other points upon which I should like 

 to have touched. Of the dairying industry of Normandy, 

 which I had some opportunity of investigating in 1895, 

 so much has been written that it is perhaps unnecessary to 

 allude to it here. Another important industry of northern 

 France — cider-making — has been the subject of interest- 

 ing reports in recent volumes of this Journal. The subject 

 of rural education in France has been exhaustively 

 treated in recent reports. 1 I was greatly interested in 

 a visit which I paid to the Agricultural Institute at 

 Beauvais, but I can add nothing to that which has beer 

 written by high authorities on the subject. 



When I undertook this article I hoped to be able to 

 examine in much more detail the voluminous records of 

 the rural economy of France. Other work has prevented 

 this, and I am conscious, therefore, of a very inadequate 

 and sketchy attempt to deal with a subject requiring 

 much time and research. I can but hope, however, that 

 I may have put in a concise form a few facts which will 

 inspire others who have the opportunity to examine for 

 themselves the manifold points, both of resemblance and 

 difference, that equally serve to emphasise V entente 

 cordiale, which, throughout long years of political change, 

 has subsisted between the farmers of France and of these 

 islands. 



1 " Special Reports on Educational Subjects," Vol. VII. Rural 

 Education in France (ed. 834), 1902. 



