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The freest facilities siiould be offered to all desirous of 

 entering on a course of training. The fees should be extremely 

 moderate, almost nominal, in fact ; and scholarships and ex- 

 hibitions should be obtainable with such ease as to place the 

 course of training within the reach of all who show the neces- 

 sary aptitude and industry. 



All SroRTiNG Estates to be brought under Cultivation 



All culturable lands that are reserved for sporting purposes 

 by proprietors at the time of passing the Act, should, within 

 reasonable time, be brought again under cultivation and given 

 l)ack to the country for the production of food supplies, and 

 for providing employment for the people; but it should be 

 optional with the proprietors to reserve a percentage only, in 

 l^roportion to the acreage of each estate, for sporting purposes, 

 the percentage to be fixed by enactment. 



Grass land and pasturage throughout the country should 

 be reduced to a minimum commensurate to maintain the 

 maximum head of cattle, cows chiefly, which it is found the 

 country is capable of supporting without trenching on arable 

 preserves. This will require delicate discrimination, and nice 

 adjustment, but if the Scandinavian system of stall feeding be 

 adopted, instead of allowing the cattle to roam aimlessly and 

 wastefully over unnecessarily large tracts of grazing country, 

 it will be found that an infinitely larger number of cows can 

 be kept than are dreamt of under the present chaotic and 

 wasteful system. 



Establishment of Dairies and Poultry Farms compulsory 



The establishment and maintenance of dairies should in 

 all cases be compulsory where the farms are large enough to 

 support the cows ; the dairies to vary in proportion to the size 

 of the farms. 



Tlie establishment and maintenance of poultry farms should 

 be compulsory in all cases irrespective of the size of the farms. 



Under certain conditions the country is capable of supply- 

 ing practically all the dairy produce, poultry, and eggs that are 

 consumed annually, and the farmers should be required to 

 supply them. 



How to Eaise the Money 



The money required for the purpose should be raised by 

 loan and added to the — National Debt. This may, and no doubt 

 will be objected to by many who are sufficiently interested 



