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should be secured to, and dignified arrange- 

 ments should be made for, those experts and 

 trained managers, whatever be the particular 

 locality from which their influence is to 

 proceed. When we have a Resident for each 

 valley, and a charming Residency chosen or 

 built in a central locality, we shall feel re- 

 assured concerning the national estimate in 

 which education is held. The college and 

 farm school must not be confounded with the 

 commercial and skilled management of the 

 area. But, on the other hand, the records of 

 these educational institutions ought to contain 

 the honoured names of the practical valley 

 staff, for the obvious purpose of agricultural 

 education should be to supply possessors of it 

 to our national purposes and undertakings. 



We have, then, to provide accommodation 

 at one or more centres for milk distribution, 

 butter and cheese-making ; for egg grading, 

 storing, and distribution ; for pig feeding and 

 bacon curing ; for meat and the local wool 

 market ; for fruit distribution, pulping, grad- 

 ing, and the manufacture of jam ; for vegetable 

 distribution ; for the minor operations of 

 milling, crushing, and the sale of the cereals 



