have been much interested in reading the article in the
Spectator of April 8th under the above heading. My father (Mr. Paget, of Ruddington Grange, Notts) solved the question for himself in a very practical way more than fifty years ago. He employed a double set of boys on the farm, and insisted on their all going to school on alternate days. They were thus able to begin work earlier and remain at school longer. He had a most able coadjutor in the village schoolmaster, who was a good master and practical man, though I do not think he possessed all the requirements of the present educational authorities. The boys worked well both at school and on the farm, and were well developed mentally and physically. They almost all, if not all, did well in after life, and ono of them earned the prize some years ago from the Royal Agricultural Society for the best cultivated farm of one hundred acres.—Hoping that these few details
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