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agricultural machinery might also be practically 

 explained in these institutions, to which repair- 

 ing workshops should be attached. Every 

 county should have a number of demonstration 

 and experimental plots for the enlightenment 

 of both the young and the middle-aged. In 

 short, the communal farm will need, and will 

 demand, the very utmost assistance learning 

 can bring to agriculture. Peripatetic teachers 

 are all very well as a makeshift, but convincing 

 demonstrations in scientific agriculture cannot 

 be performed by a series of conjuring tricks 

 in a lecture room. 



The entire cost of education should be borne 

 by the nation, and none of it raised by County 

 Councils. Similarly, the repairing of county 

 roads scored by the wheels of heavy motor 

 lorries, travelling from one great town to 

 another, should be borne by the Exchequer. 



Much has been written about agricultural 

 education, co-operation, and credit banks, and 

 I do not propose to add to the tonnage of those 

 ponderous tomes. But I must say a few words 

 about marketing and transport, for men will 

 work with no heart at farming if the fruits of 

 their labour are robbed from them by those who 

 control the market stalls and the cattle rings. 



As far as joint-stock banks are concerned, 

 though they may have been helpful in the past 

 to distressed agriculturists, the last thing in 

 the world that we should do is to ask bankers 



