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EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



as well as official statistical returns and reports of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of Norway. 



The report of the Society for the Promotion of the Na- 

 tional Welfare gives complete details of the five dairy schools 

 which are conducted under its auspices, and these details 

 are of extreme importance, inasmuch as they show the prac- 

 tical nature of the dairying which is actually done, and in 

 which the pupils are required to assist as though they were 

 paid servants. The society receives from the State an annual 

 contribution of 16,500 crowns (£907). It has 18 district 

 branches and 4 special branches, and 13 of the first-named 

 have 132 local subdivisions. The funds of the society were 

 chiefly devoted to the promotion of dairying in 1886 and 1887. 

 It maintains three dairy instructors, whose services are in con- 

 stant demand, owing to the greatly increasing number of dairies 

 which are being started. It is stated that, as the Government 

 intend to make grants to these five schools, the societ}^ will 

 gradually drop them, and leave them to the care of the State. 

 The gross work, as regards milk manipulation at the schools in 

 1886, was as follows : — 



A litre is about If pints, and a kilogramme 2 lbs. 3.j oz. 



The details of one of these schools are given further on. In the 

 same year the society made grants to eight dairy exhibitions. 

 We give an example of the work of the year as regards the Rings 

 School, which is both interesting and instructive, as follows : — 



Months. 



Milk 

 Handled. 



.Milk 

 Churned. 



Butter 

 yield. 



Proportion 



of Milk to 



Butter. 



Skimmed Jlilk. 



Skimmed 

 Milk used 

 for Cheese 



Litres. 

 12,861 



8,960 

 14,546 

 18,.580 

 18,000 

 ll,0'24 

 10,812 

 ll,-23(; 



8,268 

 12,518 

 12,306 

 17,148 



No of 

 Cheeses. 



Weight. 



59 

 40 

 69 

 89 

 90 

 52 

 51 

 53 

 39 

 59 

 58 

 79 



Kilos. 



956-5 



641-5 

 1,036-5 

 1,179-5 

 1,'.'80 



733 



720 



643 



580 



929 



851-5 

 1,345-5 



Proportion 



of Milk 

 to Cheese. 



Litres. 

 13-45 

 13-97 

 14-03 

 15-75 

 14-07 

 15-04 

 15-02 

 17-47 

 14-26 

 13-47 

 14-45 

 12-75 



