ON POLITICAL MATTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 65, 22 July 1913, Page 5

ON POLITICAL MATTERS.

MO RE SCHOLARSHIPS. [To The Editor Stratford Post. ) Sir, —I notice that Mr Young, M.P., advocates small holdings and scientific agriculture. Nearly every paper that ono reads contains articles on the same subject. Even the Farmers’ Union is advocating political economy, but, foi the present emergencies, it seems like roofing the house before the piles are in. Perhaps a small knowledge of each of the following subjects may be of some value to the present occupier of the land:—Biology, morphology, bacteriology, pathology, physiology and zoology. Every farmer should at least know something about himself, his laud, and his cattle. The only way this can bo brought about is by experiment and perseverance. The time is coining when a pupil of the sixth standard will be utterly useless as a farmer. Under existing circumstances, it woul, in my opinion be a great help if more scholarship', were given. T. CUTHBEET. Pembroke Road, 21st July, 1913.