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powers they now possess for helping on the work 

 of agricultural organization. How profoundly 

 the interests they represent are concerned in the 

 welfare of agriculture will be readily conceded. 

 It is equally certain that the funds at their 

 command for educational purposes could hardly 

 be laid out to more practical advantage, from a 

 "county" standpoint, than in securing an increase 

 of agricultural prosperity. Happily, too, there 

 is no need for them to incur any very great 

 expense in the exercise of their new authority. 

 The direction in which they could render the 

 most practical assistance would be in guarantee- 

 ing the salaries of capable agricultural organizers, 

 working in touch with all the various agencies, 

 constituting a connecting link between them, and 

 forming a means by which the general work 

 of agricultural organization could be advanced. 

 There would be no necessity whatever for any 

 of the County Councils to elaborate schemes of 

 their own. They need only help to build on the 

 foundations already laid. 



There is, however, one direction in which 

 action already taken in the work of agricultural 

 education might be modified. With the best 

 of intentions, travelling dairies have been sent 

 round various rural districts in order to give 

 daiiy workers instruction in better methods of 



