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valuation ; and in any case the attempt is ex- 

 tremely instructive, costs nothing, and is quite 

 certain to make some money by the improvement 

 in the stock, even assuming that not one of them is 

 ever sold at a special price for breeding. Every- 

 thing I have done is well within the means of the 

 average peasant, and the wonder to me is that a 

 people naturally so clever should not make more of 

 the opportunities provided for them free of charge 

 by the Department of Agriculture. In addition 

 to the improvement in their pockets, it would call 

 brain activity into their business, and lift their 

 labour to a mental plane, redeeming energy from 

 slavishness and character from apathy. 



A really educated community is utterly 

 impossible unless they can find something to 

 do for mind in the work by which they live. 



