Land Problems and National Welfare 



correctly, on the subject of land. 



Again, a few millionaires — one single mil- 

 lionaire — could also do much. Doctor Robert- 

 son, Canadian Commissioner of Agriculture, has 

 spent during the past fifteen years or so a sum of 

 ^1,000,000 provided by that patriotic Canadian, 

 Sir William Macdonald ; every sort of develop- 

 ment in rural and agricultural education has 

 been carried out ; schools and demonstrations 

 have been started which have been taken over 

 by the authorities when their usefulness was 

 proved. The greatest monument to the work 

 of these two men is the great Agricultural and 

 Normal College at St. Ann's near Montreal, 

 which is one of the most perfect institutions of 

 its kind in existence and which is attracting 

 world-wide attention. 



We have ample room for one or two 

 Macdonald colleges in England. We hear of 

 millionaires who do not know how to spend 

 their money : may I recommend this way to 

 their notice ? Or, if this be too ambitious a 

 scheme, great good could be done by giving 

 one of our practical agricultural colleges a 

 sufficient income, by means of which to ac- 

 complish really effective work ; an extra ;^3,ooo 

 a year is relatively not a very large sum, but it 

 would make a vast difference in the effective- 

 ness of an existing institution. 



Another lesson from America is the amount 



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