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estate management, and there may also be some who 

 would eagerly apply their knowledge of the principles 

 of science, or of economics, or of history, to teaching or 

 research of an agricultural character, if only their 

 attention were turned in that direction. Hitherto this 

 University has, in effect, declared that a sufficient aca- 

 demic course of preparation for the position of a land- 

 owner has been provided along the conventional avenues 

 to a degree. His future work may lead him to till his 

 own fields, to feed his own flocks, to occupy a seat on 

 the County Council, District Council, or Parish Council, 

 or on one or more of the many Committees to which 

 county business is delegated. He may have to make 

 agreements, grant leases, or enter into contracts, and 

 his agricultural operations may at any time bring him 

 up against regulations and orders of Departments of 

 Government. I am far from suggesting that he should 

 be sent forth from the University fitted to dispense 

 with advice legal or administrative, but it would seem 

 reasonable that he should be sufficiently acquainted 

 with the elements of law to appreciate the form and 

 force of a legal instrument such as a farm lease ; that 

 he should have some knowledge of the law and 

 customs that regulate the tenancy of farms, and that 

 he should know how his actions as regards the sale of 

 produce are limited by orders of the Boards of Agri- 

 culture and Local Government. He should also be 

 acquainted with the principles of rotations, with the 

 composition and uses of fertilizers and feeding-stuffs, 

 and with the physiological basis of animal and plant 

 nutrition. All this, and much more, he must get to 

 know somehow, if he would rationally direct the 

 management of his estate. What, of course, actually 

 happens in the majority of cases is that the young land- 



