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slow rate at which an adjustment between the 

 supply and demand of agricultural products can 

 be looked for is necessary. 



First, the training of the agricultural labourer. 

 The essential difference between a good factory 

 hand and a good farm hand is the comparative 

 absence in agriculture of specialised labour. A 

 good farm hand must be a good all-round man. 

 The yearly cycle of the seasons involve a variety 

 of knowledge and a wide experience. He is 

 working hand in hand with nature. A skilled 

 agricultural population cannot be hastily impro- 

 vised. From this point of view the emigration 

 of skilled agricultural labourers is doubly to be 

 regretted. Not only is their skilled labour lost 

 to us at a time when a proportion at any rate of 

 agricultural products can be profitably grown at 

 home, but the knowledge which enables them to 

 get employment at home is a handicap in the new 

 countries to which they emigrate, where the con- 

 ditions of agriculture are so different to those 

 with which they have been accustomed. It has 

 been the boast of our nation that we have peopled 

 wide areas beyond the seas. The successful colon- 

 ist has been he who has emigrated, as a young 

 man and found it easy to adapt himself to the 

 new conditions. The movement to set up training 

 schools in this country for the emigrant, which 

 has been welcomed by the representatives of the 



