Nor is there much difficulty in agreeing upon the main conditions to be satisfied in the selection of the industries to meet the requirements of our case.
The men and boys require employment in the winter months, or they will not stay, and the rural industries promoted should, as far as possible, be those which allow of intermittent attention.

The female members of the family must have profitable and congenial employment.

The handicrafts to be promoted must be those which will give scope to the native genius and aesthetic sense.

But unless we can thus supply the demand of the peasant-industry market with products of merit or distinctiveness, we shall fail in competition with the hereditary skill and old established trade of peasant proprietors which have solved this part of the problem generations ago.

This involves the vigorous application of a class of instruction of which something will be said in the proper place.
So far the rural industry problem, and the direction in which its solution is to be found, are fairly clear.