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bility, and this, as the experience of the Dominions 

 themselves shows, is more often present in the town 

 than in the country youth. New South Wales and 

 Victoria have both taken youths from towns in the 

 United Kingdom for farm work, and with great success. 

 South Australia is now following their example. In 

 New Zealand also English town-bred lads have pro- 

 vided labour for the land and their worth has been 

 proved. The Commissioners are accordingly satisfied 

 that from town youths in the United Kingdom having 

 no previous experience of agriculture the country 

 labour requisite for the Dominions can be obtained. 



The Commissioners give practical advice based on 

 the evidence which was put before them. In their 

 view the suitability of the migrant should be tested. 

 For this purpose they recommend the establishment 

 in the Mother Country of government farms where 

 elementary training should be given under men 

 acquainted with the methods of the country to which 

 the migrant proposes to go, and with separate farms 

 for each Dominion. It would be enough to accustom 

 the intending emigrant to the handling of horses, the 

 milking of cows, and the use of machinery and imple- 

 ments employed on farms overseas ; the testing of 

 character and suitability would remain the chief 

 feature, and the greater part of instruction in farming 

 should take place in the Dominions. To this end the 

 Dominions should establish centres for the instruction 

 of immigrants ; in Australia there already exists an 

 institution of this nature. 



The training areas for males ought to be supple- 

 mented with training centres for females for instruction 

 in cheese and butter making, the care of poultry and 

 domestic science. 



