CHILDREN AS FARMERS.
Quite a large number of experiments in some sort of rural education are being made in England, most of them neither seeking nor receiving any advertisement. They are being stimulated by the low price of land, which can be purchased in many counties, for example, Wiltshire, Norfolk, and Hunt- ingdonshire, for some £5 or £6 an acre. If much is bought houses are thrown in at the price. A modest but very thought- ful experiment has been proceeding for some eight years on land near Andover, valued at £6 an acre. It is known as Hugh's Settlement, and has been so successful that it is to be extended. Roughly the idea is to form a self-supporting settlement, at first worked largely by children of fourteen to sixteen years of age, fowned into squads of four each, who learn by practice certain trades as well as various forms of agriculture.
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