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AGRICULTURA1. SCHOOLS. 
iiig their respective professions, whether learned or vulgar, serve 
apprenticeships, and toil through life thereafter? It seems to be 
forgotten that land-ownership is a profession ; and that it is in the 
manner in which it is conducted that the best interests of the 
country are injured or promoted.” 
The author proceeds to enumerate the pecuniary sacrifice and 
the loss of estimation in the opinion of others, and of themselves 
too, which they must incur who wholly entrust the management of 
their estates to a bailift’or steward. These officers are necessary 
to conduct various parts of the concern to which the proprietor 
has neither time nor inclination to give the requisite attention ; 
but still the proprietor of the land should be fully capable of 
judging for himself of the management and working of the 
whole. 
After a faithful picture of the inconveniences, losses, and de¬ 
gradations to which the proprietor of land, altogether unac¬ 
quainted with agricultural affairs, necessarily exposes himself, 
the author of the paper thus continues : — 
Now the effects of all these evils, we venture to assert, may 
be most effectually remedied by the sons of landed proprietors, 
who will themselves become landowners, acquiring a thorough 
knowledge of farming in their youth, as a necessary branch of 
practical education: the management of their estates will then 
be felt a desirable gratification, and not a task. 
“ They would then discover that there is not a more rational, 
pleasing, or interesting study than the science of agriculture, and 
its practical application; nor one which can be so well combined 
with those manly sports and amusements in which it is the pride 
of our country gentlemen to excel. They would then have no 
temptation to reside abroad, but would discover that a knowledge 
of the minutiae of farming creates a daily increasing interest in 
field-operations and the cultivation of stock. A personal ac¬ 
quaintance with their tenants w'ould open a wnde field of human 
nature for their observation ; and this ample field to glean from, 
in connexion with the facts acquired in their own practice, would 
supply them with cogent arguments and illustrations on all sub¬ 
jects connected with agriculture, whereby their sentiments would 
command respect in every public assembly. 
‘‘Where is all this important knowledge to be acquired? It 
is to be acquired, like every other species of knowledge, by obser¬ 
vation of the operations of nature, as displayed in the field of 
art. 
“ Is this question asked in the country whose proud boast is 
to possess more enterprising, educated, and well-informed farm¬ 
ers than perhaps any other kingdom in the world ? 
“ In all the best-managed districts, where the mixed husban- 
