These young men, racy of the soil from birth, come
from bumble homes and often rise to high distinction. One of them is now a professor of agricultural economies ; another manager of the most famous farm in England. Desertion of the land in the after career is scarcely known : the rural bias is already too strong. A score of labourers' sons enjoy and profit by this year's training, and very many more desire to. It is hoped that means may be found, when the world knows how practically beneficent the scheme is, for extending the benefit by more scholarships and an extension of the farm and buildings. Youths from overseas are accepted. Two Australians, for example, are included in the present group and I seldom saw a company who " consented to a mutual relation " more naturally or with better profit.
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