FROM PLOUGH-BOY TO PROVOST.
The following clipping from a monthly called Life and Work may be read with interest:—"An ex-Provo°t of ono of our northern towns, one of the most influential men in the north of Scotland, now a leading farmer and the proprietor of his own farm, acted first as herd-boy and then as ploughman's lad on his father's little hillside farm of £3o rent till he was twentythree years of age, when he went to a newspaper office and rose step by step to be proprietor of the paper, retiring from that a few years ago full of honours, to give himself to the firming of bis property. While his nephews, after a similar training to a ploughman's work, went also into journalism, and are now loading authorities on agriculture, one beiufj editor of some of our chief agricultural journals, while llie other is eeeietary t)a fanmus agricultural society."
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 154, 13 November 1895, Page 4
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151FROM PLOUGH-BOY TO PROVOST. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 154, 13 November 1895, Page 4
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