i8 THE PLACE OF RURAL ECONOMY 



elsewhere, that the University would have undertaken 

 the performance of local work for adjacent County 

 Councils. Such work consists of courses of lectures 

 at convenient centres, and of demonstration areas or 

 feeding experiments on selected farms. Work of this 

 kind also is interesting and valuable, but it makes 

 serious inroads on a man's time ; and if the energies of 

 a lecturer are divided between local classes and Uni- 

 versity instruction the latter will suffer relatively most. 

 If, on the other hand, two staffs are maintained, one 

 to deal with internal, and the other with external work, 

 there does not appear to be any great advantage in 

 associating county work with a University Department. 

 Here also the College at Reading has fully met local 

 requirements, and, whatever the future may hold, I do 

 not think that the University need regret the perform- 

 ance of this work by another body. 



Having detached these two classes of student, the 

 remainder may also roughly be divided into two groups. 

 One of these is constituted by men whose main busi- 

 ness in life will be the management of landed estates. 

 In most cases the land will be the property of the youth 

 whose educational necessities we are considering, while 

 in other cases the relationship will be that of principal 

 and agent. The other group is formed by men who 

 intend to make a profession of teaching, including those 

 who are attracted to the subject as a field for research. 

 The line between these two groups may not be quite 

 sharply defined at all points, but clearly, we have, on 

 the one hand, those who will be engaged in the practice 

 of Agriculture, and on the other, those who intend to 

 follow an academic or, it may be, an official career. 

 There must be young men here who have, practically, 

 no alternative but to assume the responsibilities of 



