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4. Yet another class of training farm 

 should be provided, equipped on a more 

 ambitious scale, with its scientific side and 

 its laboratories, but also its practical work- 

 ing system and its actual economic cultiva- 

 tion of crops. This would be for the train- 

 ing of the farmer rather than the farm 

 labourer, for the man who will inherit his 

 father's farm or be a tenant farmer or a 

 small-holder. To this type of farm lads 

 would come from the Public Schools and 

 the secondary schools, paying reasonable 

 fees (which should not need to exceed 

 £40 or £50 a year). Some of these farms 

 would specialize in cattle and sheep raising, 

 some in grain growing, some in fruit grow- 

 ing, some in mixed farming. It would not 

 necessarily be disastrous if these agricultural 

 college experimental farms were graded in 

 character — some making provision for the 

 ' Public School boy," with an ambition for 

 a modest career as a gentleman farmer; 

 others for the boy whose largest ambition 

 would be a small holding bought with the 

 help of State credit. 



