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in success to be disregarded or lightly antag- 

 onised. All the book-learning and experimental 

 work of the finest system of agricultural education 

 that could be devised may have reason to be 

 grateful for points from the man whose way 

 with the land comes almost from an instinct, 

 and who has the greatest of all agricultural 

 virtues, an inherited love of the land. 



But if the new school of the agriculturally 

 educated bore themselves with a proper humility, 

 and were taught, along with their science, respect 

 for such of the traditions of the countryside as 

 are sound, the position would settle itself, no 

 doubt, with no more than the usual amount of 

 grumbling that greets any change in England, 

 and the next generation of farmers and farm 

 workers would not be left without the lore that 

 is passed from mouth to mouth, and would in 

 addition have acquired a modern knowledge of 

 the science of the soil. 



