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the score of a diminished a ои asque: labour; 
eed this skill more 
than he used to the 
intensity, asI ed call it, now-a-days, 
pea of o А. урну 
of far he 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
was not possible to those who took their farms 20 and 30 
si 
ps EA 
eed in it of careful, sif 
e than vege- 
superintendence. id life needs it mo 
ia dentia ng with the dead stuff of a merely material 
manufacture ; but the progress of agriculture has be een 
| Кыны апа 
an 
years ago. It is ible an ung who in this way the ni 
takes a farm at prese And isit not desirable ү МЫНИ їп ich cap 
UH hay ы E it not well that besides the m е | ооб even here we can 
| 1 f of knowledge a hich 
| and such a jene in the field, a man should kh e depends. There reason th 
about 16, with that completer understanding which sees | contending for t "s hte of di at 
apart rom its circumstances, and dis- not have their ЫШ tested b rs 
ti +h 
the mere local colour in which ` that history is 
The pr ESENE value of thi 
ation on 
might be made the « subj ject oft 
that 
FE 
of C imported manures and meer [m and all this 
has been already provod by the light which it 
E thrown on the action of manures and on the 
farm. We kon more plan nts u upon our acres than we 
w And 
e meat manufacture, 2. е., on the growth 
of both Pies and animals. It would be easy to illus- 
contend, therefore, that! takin 
examination nee and actual 
account, it j. ssib 
mino in thi 
F1 r 
or county. or nrov puted that TT 
used to do, 
го we 
ату. 
us Mr. Dudding, of Wragby, еден ГО; who 
believes in де enter intelligence of the present 
generation 
** Thac the ДЕ part of the business of a farmer is in 
advance I do not MM 8 young men of БА father's € 
40 or 50 years ago, ace plou 
their own е: end: anie ding pn a vitet, асани of nce 
in fact, taking part in any of the practical work on the farm. 
Now th disi is Ty У different; not onein ten of the higher class 
ould be capa able upon commencing ananga 
T ex his own practical experience vario: 
bam on his farm. 
. Clare Sewell Read, of Norfolk, comparing 
uo younger of the present generation with the past, 
Ing, groom 
E t d 
ind vorum farmers, I don't think they are much 
improved ; but of course езгеч knowledge of the principles and | 
science of agriculture must 
. I may say that I k ofn 
this neighbourhood, of the p of 22, ge is ptm i of o 
ducting а large farm to о ad vani e unless entirely trusting t 
to be the general opinion that t 
rs had, possess superiority as regards that 
«еге арр, ability де ^il which now more than ever 
4. 
here is the professional intelligence on which 
this s sl ‘ought to be founded. „What an immense 
of | seyi 
us 
upon the farmer at any е уз t is not necessary 
to do во here, for you have СА н this 
suppor ted by o D 
late many a к EXE чы x 
here, and taught during the past season by Profess 
Church, of Cirencester; so that this county has the 
t 
r|selves as farmers, It w 
agricultural education Fir dee 
ene "of re led the т in the ackno 
the value scientific knowledge. h by the 
еа X the Royal гест "Collega, and 
by the formation of local classes for the study of the 
| sciences of agriculture. 
Well, then, gentlemen, I think I have stated at 
suficient length the largeness of the field over which a 
trictly agricultural education extends. 
| рап must acquire in it knowledge, skill, and - 
before 
I have admitted iu all humility the comparatively 
ре i SAM of the preliminary general ow 
on of bo d and m ад 1 may appe er о you 
rad it vim e een eight a survey of the extent of 
biete which thorough goo 
ires, bos is Sek „even pem in th 
the 
of hii is — a liberal ойор; and on which we 
for the ultimate influence and position of 
хаети s as а body. 
opponent, as he thinks himself, in the North 
Brilish Agrieuliurir t, takes the - of a lad leaving 
seris 
ide and half educa «edis agricultural | lim 
tra says 
- i he we the length of starting with his capital, what 
has been the e 
ucation of this lad from 14 to 20 ine s и on 
of some kind he must get. lthink I can Suck He 
to brown pipes and smoke no end o tole. 
And then follows his passage, азат quoted, about 
the advantage of coming well educated to the work of 
to be, For merly a man's professional career as farmer 
was limited to the area represen 
"mi nm ле: ш qe | 1 
he student or | an 
hus us tend 
agricultural i improvement which is 
ае че 
after a suffici 
object c of 
ety а 
assistance of елес and of men, 
club аву the arrangements for the еи 
тетя and of practical kno ies. т: sid үз 
зер - examina tjr 
attractions e 
My g man to uch more 
improvement than he vod үг brine 
both Society and Club would be w Mi. 
its of their proper fields of operati 
for several 
ave bad to give it up for want o 
Highland and n e Бен: have 
candidates for di can't 
- the loli of us : 
hich will thereby be dies ja its fav 
years, EN 
market town. ‚ The practice which long experience 
as а ^ armer the better is it for hi — an nd re his 
saguen ure al ма геег, but when once he does 
of all з аат in which he could take part. Ifa 
theorist intruded, it was rer. vih some lop-sided 
d his 
n the agricultural Ac whether his 
dient. be defecti ve or not, let us not leave him to 
the pipes and liber rty a and laz ziness whi ich my сей 
H а twithstanding failure ‹ 
rticular pro rovince on tl 
ог impete truth which d 
and w п laughed to scorn w that of lig practical 
farms, he cannot be induced to take an interest i in "the i 
rar 
late John Smith, of Bowldonf ormed one 
Ped; small circle, his — of he pe ог 
thought and of discussion w. 
- | tbe skill of the thoroughly “well-educated agriculturist 
are to be a acquir red, 
{жк ау с; H 
Farmers 
recommendation of mere points of farm ped 
of Ae sorge — have taken hia in hand. Their 
tion “ ы six-field for a five-fleld rotation of crops, How | ве 
is it n 
d. Smith had an occasional agricultural co 
хааа, whenever and wherever suc ch 
x ы ested, would have les «р the pro- 
reaa 2 agricu tural students in two 
Clu 
e Robert Јо gis the Ri 
: The he second re 
College was founded. 
m» надао а is that we he 
in this cou клен Cire: oiri of pr 
tural stadents, to whom a stimulus dut 
and from wee we shoul 
'casio 
spon ndence, TI remains to us, with a friend. їп 
Scotland, and he a ga rar d with m 
labour and е: the ML. amd 
The 
uch | impossibi 
a 
id d eat objection 
see many a candidate gri -— local i: 
this the 
ility of determining Hodie ‘proteiene by 
керсуу „Dou ibtless ess you cannot ascertain the tact 
beyo; 
thereafter brin ng Ret of fres material E hea: 
but you 
bos. tni en 
merit in the scheme ifs T ness or 
an Institution wh 
us? We have the ei Fors e 
dents every where, the 7 я ар к жы ташыт 
takes us anywhere, and the penny daily paper that 
brings every w as you may say, to no 
longer t » or parish, or market town which 
i have 
before us, and periodically the prc Society ste 
from one county to another, and brings t the farm mers of 
- | leest as jas ав can à prs by the board of naval 
examiners who pass cadets and lieutenants on board 
ship, and who are veg meg in as a guarantee of their 
professional trap c and skill. 
I would n hese examinations 
tition 
almost оче 6 there used to be in e classes 
for of farmers at our ploughing hes, 
precodent for the much pis elaborate "trial ot 
Nor is this all. It is not nearly all. We have now the 
science for at least a quarter of a century have given 
= of a` full e pe gn bein ng accessible of. the 
t the 
the f 
ural p 
nbn with EU mer deal 
he 
It is no theory at all. as t al al 
and substantial truth as anything that can be dealt 
with by the horse and or butcher’ les, T 
relations to one another of the several kinds of materia 
atoms of whi ch the world are the subject of 
whether we know it or 
not, the results which ive gather i in the harvest field and 
market place, as 
advantage which the enthusiastic labours of men of| thei 
a Sgt and pleach а fence like a yn er, an 
o abilitv in all 
1 | con: 
ма knowled 
ws, | des 
er, | séquaininnes with rd - theres be tested by 
and compe- | еп 
ons y le с ye catechism. There j is already | 
|K 
te all o 
а | Gloucestershire, and if the 
should. feel disposed to 
can hardly fail of 
kill by which I should like to see the 
pre 
тагы А and apprentices of а cou good 
r claim to the Society's honours and rewards, 
The North British Agri ае : Permet таъ іп 
would ugh 
saying that I 
like a ploughman, shear like s a a anie d pw like 
nd there 
e properly ascer 
a series of written eere quale = by а 
ersational ‘examination: So also could most of h 
be tested in 
ordinary rules of radi practice, the 
and of manuring, the details of т cultivation fro. 
b omg s м.а end, the history of the horse, ox, an 
P, from 
red „of all E — — animals, 
with them, "d a 
this at è 
processes of tillage | 
rom 
colt and ,calf and lambhood u кишу pa |i 
through the gentlemen whom I 
able consideration of the proposal. 
THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
= 
v. 
x My father in carving 1 occasionali а 
ie ass off the table and smash і ктт put the ^ 
owa Ts bu bat Ie fault o er més 
sd i d seed at ris iem ep ik bs 5 
where i have “ caught" it, D ру отаны 
is | become develo within emselves, 0 ax 
and — which gair " 
own co U а T 
is developed і in any one 
i 
d|it does not follow that the fist P peon e 
it. "The world is supposed to В зан 
e|if во, was the tle disenso cree e 
| ог has it been subsequently sent „1 И 
other place—or did it issue Я 
