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"German View of British Agriculture"), it is 

 just possible that the interests of the last- 

 mentioned class — which interests are not neces- 

 sarily identical with those of landowners, land 

 agents, and gentleman farmers — might not always 

 be either fully represented or adequately con- 

 sidered. If, on the other hand, the arrangement 

 in question were to so far influence the said 

 working farmers as to lead in the slightest 

 degree to their depending on the Board of 

 Agriculture to do for them what they could 

 very well do for themselves, the result could 

 only be deplored. Personally, 1 am much more 

 favourably inclined towards an active fostering 

 of self-help, on the lines laid down by those now 

 carrying on the work of organization in the rural 

 districts, than I should be towards any possible 

 development, even from afar off, of such political 

 and bureaucratic tendencies as those which Die 

 Gennossenschaft grieves over in the case of 

 Austria. 



Where, I think, there is more especially dis- 

 tinct scope for Government action is in a greater 

 expansion of the good educational work already 

 done through the publications of the Board of 

 Agriculture by placing on a better footing the 

 whole system of agricultural education in its 



manifold phases, and more particularly as rc- 

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