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as indoor students to the agricultural depart- 

 ment of any seminary who would not do so. 

 Colleges adapted to amateur and gentlemen 

 farmers will never suit practical ones. 



In Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, 

 attention to the purport of these remarks is 

 more necessary than even in England and the 

 Lowlands of Scotland. In the former we have 

 only got gentlemen farmers and labourers, but 

 in the latter we have got practical men, who 

 will, we hope, be able to maintain their ground 

 between the two extremes of poverty and 

 wealth already referred to. In Ireland, there- 

 fore, such industrial means must be established. 



The first practical step on the part of Irish 

 landlords and gentlemen farmers in the re- 

 formation of their country is the appointment 

 of practical men as agents, stewards, and bailiffs ; 

 men who are qualified to advance the circum- 

 stances of the labourer on the plan already 

 noticed, as well as to improve the properties of 

 their employers. The next work is the erection 

 of cottages with gardens attached to them for 

 the accommodation of labourers required in 

 cultivating their demesnes. In conjunction with 

 the erection of cottages the clearance system, 



