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purpose should be divided into circles. Each circle should Ijg 

 in charge of a manager who should make himself familiar with 

 all the farms in his circle, their value, capabilities, etc. : so that 

 he may l)e able to deal ]trom]»tly and eflicicntly with all 

 applications for liuancial aid, and re[)ort intelligently on their 

 administration. 



All Fakms may re State aided 



All farms may be State aided, but proprietors must not be 

 allowed to borrow money on the security of their farms from 

 any other source tlian the State banks, and steps should be 

 taken to render sucli a course illegal. 



In the event of failure or bankruptcy, the State would have 

 the same rights as any other creditor or mortgagee. Provision 

 should, however, be made by previous enactment to avoid all 

 the tedious, irksome, and costly legal proceedings that usually 

 attend such cases, which are a curse to debtor and creditor 

 alike. 



All farms should be under State inspection, as a guarantee 

 to the people that they are being carried on efficiently, lieports 

 on the working of every farm in the kingdom should be sent in 

 periodically to the proper offices. 



Moke Agiucultukal Tkaimng Schools necessary 



One important feature in the case is the want of facilities 

 for agricultural tuition, and one of the first steps to be made in 

 this direction should be the establishment of training schools, 

 or agricultural colleges, where a thoroughly sound and i)ractical 

 training may be obtained by all who are prepared to enter the 

 industry and study it as it has to be studied in order to place 

 it on the same footing as other industries. 



The training institutions at present in existence would not 

 meet the requirements of such altered conditions as have been 

 sketched. What is wanted is a number of agricultural colleges 

 pure and simple, situated in the country at convenient points, 

 where every branch of agriculture could be practically and con- 

 tinuously taught. The curriculum should be kept as simple 

 as possible, and entirely up-to-date ; the college should, in fact, 

 assume the form of a large farm on which the students would 

 live and work, making practical application to-day of what they 

 learnt yesterday : a system certain to produce far better and 

 more rapid results than any amoimt of lectures, however 

 scientific and learned, delivered from a University professor's 

 chair. 



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