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one), and the offering of greater inducements for settling 

 more people on the land under the scheme for the extension 

 of small holdings. 



The wisdom of the principles and practice of agricultural 

 organisation, as adopted and now being actively promoted 

 by the central propagandist societies of England and Wales, 

 of Scotland and of Ireland respectively, is no less beyond 

 all reasonable doubt since we have abundant evidence of 

 the fact that the movement in each country is proceeding 

 along thoroughly practical lines, has already accomplished 

 good results, and has laid solid foundations for still greater 

 efforts in the future. 



Nor can it be denied that the movement in each country 

 is well deserving of State recognition and State aid since 

 what is being done is a national work from which the 

 nation, through the reorganisation of Agriculture on a 

 sounder economic basis, has so much to hope. 



Each of the three central bodies has undertaken what are 

 essentially educational and propagandist functions. Not 

 one of them is itself engaged in " trading (or a profit," and, 

 though the local societies they help to form societies 

 which themselves can have no State aid whatever may 

 so trade, and are enabled to do so the more successfully by 

 reason of the guidance and direction they receive, they 

 occupy, in this respect, a position analagous to that of 

 individuals whom the State, through its general and its 

 higher education system, renders better qualified to fight 

 the battle of life or, in other words, to " trade " their 

 abilities and their powers " for a profit " to their own as 

 well as to the common advantage. 



There is, indeed, great need for a still closer relationship 

 between agricultural education and agricultural economics. 

 Training in the actual science of agriculture is beyond the 

 functions of Organisation Societies, and must needs be left 

 to Colleges and institutions able to apply themselves 

 especially thereto ; yet one may hope that the day is not 

 far distant when such Colleges will have, not alone their 

 Professors of Agriculture, but, also, their Professors of 



