BOYS' COUNTRY WORK SCHEME.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I draw the attention of your readers to the above Scheme, which is an outcome of the London Children's Country Volidays Fund, and of which I enclose the first Report ? • During the,laat four years we have placed a hundred and thirty London boys .on -farms to learn farmwork.. They are carefully chosen by a Committee, which only selects those of good character who seem, likely to settle in the country or emigrate. When placed they "live in" on little more than mutual terms while learning their work, after which they get ordinary wages. The arrangements made differ a little in different parts of the country. We shall 1:e3 very grateful if any one will tell us Of suitable places, or of neighbourhoods where boy farm labour is scarce: We also want to find people living in the country who will be willing to act as " visitors ' for us for boys placed near them, and we want some one in London who will act as London honorary secretary now the work is beginning to increase. We are also anxious to raise a little money to help boys with outfits and fares, and to pay necessary expenses, such as advertising, boarding lads between places, &c., &c. The Bishop of London is president of the scheme, and the vice- presidents are the Earl of Lichfield, Mr. Yerbilrgh (of the Agri- cultural Organisation Society), and Mr. Cyril Jackson (of the L.C.C.) Boys have been placed from all parts of London, and are generally doing well. In two cases the family has followed the boy " back to the land." It seems worth while appealing for a little money and more interest to enable the experiment to be carried further. Any other information will be gladly given by
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