10 Agricultural Schools and Experimental Farms. 



Government schools and experimental farms to show- 

 how the necessary changes could be best carried out. 

 And has it not been evident to every civilized Govern- 

 ment but ours that whereas a question in chemistry or 

 machinery, or of any new method of manufacturing, 

 can be brought to exact proof, and instantly decided 

 one way or another, an agricultural problem not only 

 takes years to work out, but is liable to be extremely 

 difficult of solution owing to the great variety of 

 circumstances and the numerous climatic causes which 

 disturb the results of farming experiments? And 

 seeing that farmers and landlords pay taxes, are they 

 not, therefore, as much entitled to Government aicj as 

 science, art, education, or any of the other subjects which 

 are aided by the resources of the State ? But it is now 

 time to tiim to a consideration of the whole subject 

 before us, and, in concluding these introductory remarks, 

 I only desire to add that if a certain amount of repetition 

 is to be found in these pages, it is because I think it 

 will be useful to those to whom the subject is new. 



