COUN'TRY LIFE
MANY inquiries that reach us from would-be farmers suggest that very inadequate publicity has been given to the Government training scheme, which is open to both men and women. There is offered gratuitously a year's training on the land, followed (not preceded) by a brief intensive period of technical training in a county farming school or other college. While pure science has not been neglected, the research _stations, such as East Mailing or Long Ashton, have developed very excellent methods of instruction in applied science • and the county schools have (as it seems to me) become more efficient in practical training since they housed the War Agricultural Executive Committees. These have the advantage of knowing just what crops or varieties of crop best suit the soil and climate of their shire. It might be worth the while of the Ministry to add to this instructional benefit facilities for securing a small- holding, though our most energetic economic experts begin to deny that there is any place even for the small farm in tomorrow's mechanised agriculture.
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