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chases wilJ be multiplied when the whole 

 country is united in a common purpose. But 

 it is probable that not merely the farmer, 

 but the labourer also will in the future receive 

 the benefits that co-operative dealings secure. 

 It will be noted that the above list of 

 central premises involves the oversight of 

 trained men and women. And it will be 

 conceded further that a successful manage- 

 ment can only exist side by side with that 

 scientific oversight of farming operations upon 

 which I have laid stress. It is, therefore, 

 evident that the Professor and his assistants 

 and pupils should not be very far away. It 

 would be impertinent on my part to lay down 

 a scheme, not only of agricultural education, 

 but of the higher management. I am content 

 to urge that this higher management must be 

 secured and its local habitation arranged for. 

 The very life of the population depends upon 

 those bacteriological and chemical tests which 

 but few among us can undertake. I have 

 gone in some detail into these points of 

 scientific demands, and though it is not for 

 me to dictate the order and method, I am 

 justified in demanding that ample convenience 



