Land Problems and National Welfare 



attend continuation classes. 



This continuation instruction would be given 

 by a gradually developing system of practical 

 farm schools, winter schools and evening 

 classes. 



There are some authorities who hold that 

 practical farm schools are not suitable to English 

 conditions ; and while I quite agree that it would 

 not be advisable to develop them to the extent 

 that they have been developed in France, still 

 I maintain that there is scope for a considerable 

 number of farm schools. We are giving a rural 

 bias to many of our country grammar schools, 

 and this is all in the right direction, but there 

 should be the practical farm school as well. 

 This would serve as the grammar school for 

 the farmers' sons and would be so attractive 

 to the practical agriculturist that he would 

 gladly send his son for an extra two years of 

 instruction, though he might not feel inclined 

 to send him to the agricultural college. 



The farm school should never come as a 

 wedge between the elementary school and the 

 college but should attract pupils who would 

 have no prospect of going to an agricultural 

 college, and it should also prove a most valuable 

 recruiting centre for the college itself. A well 

 managed farm of from loo to 300 acres should 

 be attached to this school. 



On the whole it is probable that the winter 

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