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When at home once more, they will find rivals and school-fellows 

 among" their young friends, and, thenceforward, as was the case with 

 the highe^ education, the system will go along of itself. 



When the school has become too smnll, never fear, it will be in- 

 creased in sizo or others will be built. 



G-ive me the pupil, and I will provide the school, and a good one, 

 too. 



In every parish and every ilub there is to be formed a small com- 

 mittee whose special duty will be to find this pupil. By their own 

 exertions, the clergy has already found pupils for the colleges, and 

 now will assist us greatly for the agricultural missioners make it 

 the first item in their programme. 



The movement is organised, the plan is arranged, just as formerly, 

 but this time, it is the farmer's son at home whom it concerns. At 

 last, it is his turn. He, entrusted with the duty of keeping up the 

 family and its traditions, of maintaining the family-house in good 

 repair, of sustaining the hospitality of the home, of that ho^e to 

 which will resort for renovation more than one brother who at one 

 time turned his back on the fields and betook himself to the noisy life 

 of towns. 



I have known cures who, when the colleges were scantily sup- 

 plied with pupils, kept at their own cost fifteen to eighteen lads 

 as students. What expense and trouble ! Good, reiterated advice 

 from the same men will be sufficient now for what we aim at. 



And, moreover, the time is at hand when the cultivation of the 

 land will offer a new career to our lads on their leaving college. More 

 and more is science finding its place in the exploitation of the land 

 as well as in the duties of the professions. It «;ornes in a marvellous 

 way to the aid of man by the multiplication of machinery ; it studies 

 the soil, prescribes and applies the elements in which it is defective ; 

 keeps in store remedies for the diseases of plants and crops ; watches 

 vigilantly over the health of our valuable herds ; repels contagious 

 diseases or contends with them when they occur : travels afar to find 

 new markets, studies them carefully, and shows us how to prepare 

 goods suited to their demands; and now we find it, strange to say, 

 bending electricity to its service in hastening the growth of plants. 



Yes, indeed, farming will soon attract to its pursuit the educated • 

 youth. In it he will find a reward for his industry and intelligence. 



