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-"TSIrr'Armitage- Smith then talks about " the 

 utmost science being applied to agricultural pur- 

 suits in other countries." Our own farmers are 

 certainly not behind in skill those of other coun- 

 tries or they could not produce more corn per 

 acre and produce better live stock than the 

 farmers in any other part or parts of the world. 

 Moreover, scientific education in agriculture is 

 undoubtedly greatly spreading with us, and has 

 been for many years; but we have yet to come 

 across the scientific farmer in this country who 

 can make his farm pay. Perhaps Mr. Armitage- 

 Smith can tell us of one, when, if permitted, we 

 will gladly pay a visit to see for ourselves what 

 has been accomplished. Meanwhile, it is a little 

 bit too gratuitous to lecture British farmers in 

 the way Mr. Armitage-Smith does, and at 

 the same time to give doubtful " facts " to 

 support his inuendoes and statements. What 

 — we should like to know — are the scientific 

 methods which the British farmer does not em- 

 ploy, but which if he did would ensure his 

 farming being profitable? "Cattle and dairy 

 farming supplemented by the rearing of fowls, 

 would seem," we are told, " at present to be the 

 most paying side of British farming."' We do 

 not dispute the statement ; and it is because Mr. 

 Chamberlain's proposals will enable this work to 

 be even more successful that we are surprised 

 Mr. Armitage-Smith does not support them. He 



