390 RURAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND. 



Ireland has possessed an Agricultural College at Temple- 

 moyle, in County Londonderry, founded by. subscription, 

 with a grant of 17,000 from the corporations of Lon- 

 don, who own the greater part of the county. Sixty 

 pupils there receive theoretical and practical instruc- 

 tion. A farm of one hundred and seventy acres, con- 

 ducted by a clever Scotch agriculturist, is attached to the 

 school. At a special inquiry in 1843, eighteen years 

 after its foundation, it was proved that, by means of its 

 pupils, and the examples it gave, Templemoyle had 

 exerted a beneficial influence upon the local agriculture. 

 In all the large Irish colleges, chairs of agriculture had 

 been founded ; but the instruction disseminated was un- 

 able to contend against the bad system of husbandry. 

 This is a seed which can only grow under favourable condi- 

 tions. These conditions being henceforth possible, the time 

 for advantageously giving an impetus to instruction has 

 arrived, and we see farm-schools springing up in every 

 county. Peripatetic lecturers have been started ; a new 

 order of missionaries carry agricultural preaching into the 

 poor villages, and disseminate cheap pamphlets among 

 the cabins of the people. No pains are spared to acquaint 

 the people with the two or three fundamental principles 

 which form the basis of good husbandry, the theory of 

 rotations, the beneficial use of manures and improvers, 

 and the art of breeding and fattening cattle. 



One of the most remarkable examples of the new sys- 

 tem which tends to establish itself, is to be found in the 

 present condition of an immense property in Kerry, be- 

 longing to Lord Lansdowne, a nobleman most justly 

 respected in England. This property contains no less than 

 one hundred thousand acres. The greater part of it is 

 mountain, affording excellent pasture, but not equally 



