The Labourer 



the farmer will be employing a boy who 

 knows how to use his hands intelligently, 

 and therefore is worth more than the boy 

 who leaves school without the knowledge of 

 how to handle a tool or implement properly. 

 The writer knows an estate in the south of 

 England where every intelligent boy is noted 

 and kept in view, and as he comes to man- 

 hood he is given the chance of obtaining 

 a bit of land, and later, of increasing his 

 holding until he becomes a small farmer ; 

 finally, if he prospers, he will have the first 

 claim on a larger farm on the estate when 

 it becomes vacant. This is organization. If 

 it were carried out on all estates we should 

 not see such a large number of youths quitting 

 the country at about the age of twenty-one. 



Another feature in rural life which should 

 be developed here, and which plays an im- 

 portant part in certain districts of Canada, 

 is the establishment of farm lads' clubs. 

 The ordinary farm lad has a very dull time. 

 Cricket or rifle clubs may be started, but for 

 one reason or another he cannot belong to 

 them. If farmers wish to attract a fair share 

 of the rising generation to farm life tliey 



