The remarkable career of a French girl who, after studying litperature at the Sorbonne and passing all her examinations, changed her plans and has now become a successful scientific farmer, has come to light in consequence of legal proceedings now pending between her and her landlords, the Institute.
In 1919 Mile. Gouze, as she is called, obtained the lease of a 900-acre farm near Chantilly, forming part of the land bequeathed by the Duc d'Aumale to the Institute for the upkeep of the castle and grounds at Chantilly. She obtained an advance of £14,000 from the Ministry of Agriculture and a similar amount from her own family. With this she re-stocked the farm with pedigree cattle and English pigs and_ sheep, addition to putting in up-to-date machinery. She has now been informed that her lease, which expires in two years, will not be renewed, a Belgian farmer having offered three times the present rental of £530.
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