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actually farming with their own capital. vSo far, therefore, 

 as such figures go, the energy of the teacher which has been 

 lost is counterbalanced by the energy which goes into 

 agriculture. 



One Bachelor of Science is farming on his own account, 

 another is managing on behalf of a big company, and as far 

 as one can see, the education, even of the most scientific 

 type, has produced most admirable practical results, whether 

 expressed in terms of so much food material, or of so much 

 cash profit. 



I do not know that there can be any more complete proof 

 that the labours of those who are engaged in teaching 

 agricultural subjects in Armstrong College has been fully 

 utilized for the cultivation of land and plant production. 

 Whether the agricultural education in any other district 

 has been equally satisfactory can only be decided by those 

 who are intimately connected with that district, but Govern- 

 ment statistics show that there is no reason for supposing 

 that these results are exceptional. Agriculture has certainly 

 used the advancements of science quite as readily as any 

 other industry in the country, which is but faint praise. 



REFERENCES TO SECTION V 



Middleton, " The Farmer and Self-Improvement," Journ. Board of 



Agriculture, 1916-17, p. 760. 



HaU, " Agriculture after the War," pp. 31, 32. (Murray.) 



Middleton, " Systems of Farming and the Production of Food," Journ. 



Board of Agriculture, 1915-16, p. 520. 



Baden-Powell, " Land Systems of British India," p. 282. (Clarendon 



Press.) 



" The Food Supply of the United Kingdom," Journ. Soc. Chem. Ind., 



1917, p. 279. 



Drage, " The Imperial Organization of Trade," p. 285. (Smith.) 

 Hobson, " Gold Prices and Wages," p. 129. (Methuen.) 

 Simpson, " Co-operative Credit," Agric. Journ. India, 1906, p. 131. 

 Gourlay, " Co-operative Credit in Bengal," Agric. Journ. India, 1906, 



p. 217. 



Matthai, " Village Government in British India," p. 17. (Fisher Unwin.) 

 Green, " The Rural Industries of England," p. 146. (Marlborough.) 

 Report of the Board of Agriculture, Cd. 6151, 1912, p. 31. 

 Smetham, "Present Conditions in Relation to Food Supplies." 



(Toulmin, Fishergate, Preston.) 



Wood, " The National Food Supply in Peace and War." (Cambridge 



University Press.) 



Noyes, " Financial Chapters of the War," pp. 34, 44. (Macmillan.) 

 Cunningham, " The Progress of Capitalism in England," p. 40. (Cam- 

 bridge University Press.) 



