FOSSIBIUTIES OF THE FUTURE 



die younger men, are made familiar 

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 i. One of the greatest triumphs that systematic 

 bis achieved in husbandry has been in connexion 

 production from the land obtained of late 

 In these investigations the problems of 

 pbyed a very important part. The same 

 lor knowledge and die same educational effort must 

 in Great Britain and Ireland if we are to produce 

 jm our land to make us feel that unnecessary waste 

 food is being avoided, or, at any rate, not going on 

 s immediately before the war. 

 be needed from which to obtain accurate 

 If they were widespread, they would 

 educational value. If they were brought 

 the very doors of oar farmers, they would not only eventually 

 useful information being acquired, but also to an 

 outlook among the agriculturists who 

 with the work. No one who has worked long 

 population can fail to observe that the 

 practitioners is a narrow one, and every effort 

 to widen h, for it is on them that we depend to 

 land. Experience shows more and more 

 average English farmer about the methods 

 useless. He is by nature too practical 

 that different conditions of farming demand 

 :; and his education and training in systematic 

 still too scanty to enable him to borrow ideas from the 

 r, and adapt them to a practical usefulness in his own 

 We most jtm+$J> bear in mind that while a small 

 if oar agriculturists are as good as any farmers are 

 hr to be, the great majority of our men are not accus- 

 to thinking of increased production ; for they have been 

 to fix their minds upon the one problem of how to get 

 if regard to the usefulness of their goods to 

 a whole. The older men may be too firmly set 

 idea to change, but it is not so with the younger ones. 

 of nearly 20 years shows that, greatly as a narrow 



