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EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



The following is the plan of studies : — 



Lessoji Plan from 15th October 1887 to 1st February 1888. 



Tune. — At the Elementary Agricultural School of Tune there 

 is a course of dairying for girls, which lasts from 1st September 

 to 1st November. The girls, of whom about fifty pass through 

 the school in a year, are divided into two batches, which in turn 

 perform the ordinary work of the dairy, under the direction of 

 the dairywomen and one of the masters, the other batch mean- 

 while receiving instruction in writing, geography, and needle- 

 work. The work of the dairy concludes at eleven o'clock, and 

 from this time the whole of the pupils are taught reading, 

 history, literature, and arithmetic, the latter including dairy 

 record and book-keeping. This school claims to provide a prac- 

 tical all-round course of training for farmers' daughters rather 

 than special training for dairymaids, and 20 cows are kept. In 

 the school proper, in which boys alone are received, there is a 

 course of instruction in the theory of dairying. The cost of the 

 dairy course for the girls is 33s. per month, this including board 

 and lodging. The grant from the State is from £40 to £45 per 

 annum, and from the funds of the parish £55 per annum. 



Veile. — This school provides a preparatory course of instruc- 

 tion for those who intend to go through a higher course of edu- 

 cation. As in the case of the school at Lyngby, the pupils are 

 first taught chemistry, the directors of the school, from whom 

 these details have been received, appearing to believe that where 

 there is no previous theoretical training, it should first take the 

 field. The course lasts for six months for both males and 

 females, who receive thirty hours' instruction weekly, but the 

 young men alone are taught chemistry, and these frequently 

 apprentice themselves to dairy farmers after leaving the school. 

 The cost of instruction is lis. jDer month for males and 15s. for 

 females. 



Sweden. 



The earliest efforts in the direction of organised instruction 

 commenced in the year 1851, when the Government sent out 

 two dairy teachers, who were appointed for the whole of Sweden, 

 paying them salaries of £200 a-year, in addition to free tickets, 



