Training the Landowner 



charlatan. As with the grammar schools, 

 so in our great public schools, the science 

 teaching needs modification, and further, the 

 future landowner should be taught certain 

 simple principles of rural economy, and 

 should be encouraged to go in for the agri- 

 cultural course at the university. Cambridge 

 for some time past has had an excellent 

 agricultural department, and it is unfortunate 

 that Oxford has not yet seen fit to follow 

 her example. The want of a properly de- 

 veloped agricultural department at Oxford 

 constitutes a very serious gap in our system 

 of agricultural education. 



There are further ways by which the 

 output of potential agriculturists could be 

 increased. Our industrial schools and refor- 

 matories should turn out a much larger 

 number of future agriculturists than they 

 do at present. In some of these schools 

 the agricultural training is excellent ; every 

 year some 1500 boys leave them to work 

 upon the land and the results have been 

 most satisfactory. This number could be 

 greatly increased if all these schools had a 

 farm attached to them and developed their 



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