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and that he be required to pursue an approved course of 

 cropping on the land annexed to the school. 



And we recommend that, at any sessions to be holden 

 for any district as before-mentioned, the local Commis- 

 sioners and jury shall present, when so specially required 

 by the Board of Improvement, a site or sites for any 

 school or schools that the Board may think proper to 

 have erected thereon, with a certain quantity of land an- 

 nexed thereto, not being less than four, nor exceeding five 

 acres ; that they shall also present the rent which should 

 be paid for the same in perpetuity, and that the Board 

 shall be authorized to take possession thereof, the usual 

 restrictions, however, being introduced as to pleasure- 

 grounds, gardens, parks, and so forth. The fund for esta- 

 blishing and maintaining each school to be provided as 

 hereinafter mentioned. 



REMARKS. 



The Commissioners with reason observe, that 

 the farmers who rent only five or six acres are 

 so ignorant that they do not derive from the soil 

 a third of what it is capable of producing. This 

 is the case in all countries where the land is cul- 

 tivated in small allotments or subdivisions. But 

 we cannot agree in the opinion that any system 

 of instruction would enable these farmers to fat- 

 ten their cattle or adopt any regular course of 

 cropping. These two vital points of agriculture 



