The Farmer 



provide facilities suitable for farmers' sons — 

 sound, generous, general instruction, />/ws special 

 instruction in the elementary schools, and 

 still more directly agricultural teaching in the 

 secondary schools. 



Wherever a young farmer of average ability 

 has taken a college course the results are the 

 same — he is ready to admit that he has learnt 

 better methods, has improved his powers of 

 organisation, and that he feels that his time 

 at the college was well spent. Even better 

 testimony comes from the father, who regrets 

 that there were no colleges available in his 

 day. 



There are a few exceptions to this rule — I 

 have heard of fathers complaining that the 

 higher college instruction was worthless ; but in 

 these cases on careful enquiry it became fairly 

 obvious that the students themselves were 

 worthless — this being a point, however, that 

 could not be pressed in discussion. That a 

 very general feeling exists, at any rate among 

 Lincolnshire farmers, as to the usefulness of 

 college instruction is shown by the fact that 

 the Lincolnshire Farmers' Union have unani- 

 mously passed a resolution praying the Kesteven 

 County Council to contribute to the support of 

 the Midland Agricultural College. 



On the question of co-operation, a subject of 

 almost equal importance with education, the 



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