298 TTTE FUTURE OF OUR AGRICULTURE. 



him to raise himself to the higher position which to tli<> 

 good of the Nation he now occupies. 



And that is not all. With increasing knowledge, with 

 increasing inducement to put more head and heart into his 

 work, with the satisfaction in his mind of a knowledge that 

 he possesses his comfortable free home, and that, in work- 

 ing, he is working also for himself, our man has, where these 

 things apply, grown a superior workman, yielding a better 

 output and better profit to his employer in the same time. 

 Let no one pretend that " work " is " work," any more 

 than that " food " is " food." The epicure whose 

 appetite — and with the appetite his power of digestion- 

 grows over the " capon of Barbezieux " " tnijfe d tout 

 ronipre," raved about by Brillat Savarin, would make wry 

 faces enough over a mess of paddy or polenta, and " ort " 

 such food, however nourishing and " good for the whole- 

 somes " he might be assured that it was. Let him, figura- 

 tively speaking, have his Barbezieux capon at home, pro- 

 mising him a toothsome bite after work — and at the end 

 of the year — and the appetising flavour of its truffles will 

 make his millet or his groats a good deal more endurable. 



From Roman days downward, when the proverb was 

 coined about the unsatisfactory^ job of " reaping another 

 man's harvest," it has generally been realised- — by those 

 who can see two sides of a question — that working for 

 another man, without any direct interest in or about the 

 work, is wearying drudgery. The interest required it has 

 been sought to impart by assigning to the workman a 

 proportionate share in the profits. " Profit-sharing " has 

 its difficulties to contend with in its application to all 

 callings, but probably most in its application to Agriculture. 

 But so far from being impracticable, it was to employment 

 in Agriculture that Profit-sharing was first of all applied — 

 in Germany in the case, become historically rather famous 

 in economic and social histor}', of Herr von Thiinen, in 

 Ireland in the less widely known but equally memorable 

 case of the late Lord Wallscourt. And it is its application 

 to employment in Agriculture that Mr. E. Strutt has in 

 the present day made a success of it. There are such faulty 



