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they know they are right. And the Cheshire farmer's 

 criticism is apt to be coloured by the extreme land 

 hunger that prevails. We read in the local Press of 

 one man objecting to the College because, while it 

 pretended to help the farmers of the county, it was 

 really turning out young men who became competitors 

 against them for farms; and it was in the same 

 county that the farmers at a land sale hooted the 

 County Council representatives, who were trying to 

 buy part of the estate for the establishment of small 

 holdings thereon. But if the College had its critics, 

 we also learnt from some of the farmers we visited 

 that it had very good friends ; and, as it strengthens 

 its position as one of the regional agricultural colleges 

 by its association with the University and by being 

 called upon to play its part in the general agricultural 

 service of the country, it will shake off these parochial 

 objections and get more support in taking its own line 

 for the assistance of the local industry. 



