Education as connected with Agriculture. 
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the necessary cost, and seek to apportion it fairly among the 
recipients. Let him not think that either charity or wisdom 
require us to qivc gratis food to the mind any more than to the 
body ; but rather by every encouragement to make this food an 
object of general desire, within the reach of average industry. 
Need I say that by this very appeal I am supposing no low 
standard of education for the farmer himself ? And yet, whatever 
may be the honourable exceptions to be found in certain, indi- 
viduals, or even certain counties or districts, I fear it is a truth 
too real to be disavowed that the low standard of the farmer's own 
education has been the principal impediment to his encouraging 
as he ought the education of those he employs. 
West Buckland, South Motion. 
APPENDIX. 
DEVON COUNTY SCHOOL. 
Debtor and Creditor Account, from the Foundation in 1858 to the 
of 1863. 
Dr. 
To 225 shares (25Z.) 
Mortage and loan 
Old buildings sold 
Supscriptions for play- 
ground 
Boys' payments 
£ 
5,625 
906 
315 
J 153 
5,001 
12,061 5 11 
Cr. £ 
By old buildings . . 937 
New buildings and land 4,345 
Repairs of building .. 36 
Furniture 879 
Books and advertise 
ments 
Preliminary and inci- 
dental 
Salaries 
Board 3,957 
Balance 87 
"} 477 
1,071 
End 
s. d. 
.18 8 
8 8 
0 0 
15 5 
18 8 
67 3 6 
7 10 
19 1 
14 1 
12,061 5 11 
Statement of Beceipts and Expenditure on Bevenue Account, for the Year 
ending December 31st, 1863. 
£ s. d. 
} 1298 19 0 
} 335 4 6 
12 7 0 
} 9 15 0 
51 2 2 
Dr. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
Cr. 
188 
19 
6 
Charged to boys for 
995 
11 
6 
board and tuition .. 
Books, including prizes 
Repairs of building .. 
21 
19 
8 
Charged to boys for 
36 
0 
0 
47 
14 
10 
Donations for prizes .. 
Advertisements .. 
11 
4 
9 , 
Scholarships given by 
13 
3 
10 
Rev. J. L. Brereton 
Taxes and interest 
46 
5 
1 
Balance .. 
Sundries supplied to) 
336 13 
6 
Scholarships 
9 
15 
0 
1707 
7 
8 
1707 7 8 
