68 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



they desire to master. Lectures are given in the country dis- 

 tricts from time to time by the teachers at the station. At 

 Fribourg itself there are two important laboratories^ where 

 milk forms a special stud}*, although the other important de- 

 partments of dairy farming are dealt with in as complete a 

 manner as possible. There is also a bureau in the same build- 

 ing as the laboratory, which exists for the purpose of affording 

 instruction or information to members of the agricultural public. 

 The institute, then, consists of a practical dairy school at Trey- 

 vaux, and of the bureau and laboratory at Fribourg. The 

 establishment is entirely official, and costs 9000 francs (£360) 

 per annum, of which half is paid by the Federal Government, 

 and half by the cantons of French Smtzerland — Fribourg, 

 Valais, Neufchatel, and Geneva. 



St Gall Dairy School and Experiment Station at Sornthal. 



I. General. 



1. The design of the St Gall Dairy School at Sornthal is the 

 furtherance and improvement of dairying, especially as regards 

 cheese and the cheese interests, with the assistance of advanced 

 knowledge, and by means of instruction and direction in the 

 cheese-making business. 



2. The institution is placed upon the following basis: — (]) 

 In a greater measure to assist in furnishing cheese-manufac- 

 turers with steam, centrifugal, butter, cheese, and heating ap- 

 paratus, with cheese store-houses, presses, and milk-rooms, with 

 the ordinary and deep-setting systems upon the newest prin- 

 ciples and the most excellent methods; (2) The improvement 

 of farm cheese dairies, with fixed and movable cheese-presses 

 and vats ; (8) A laboratory, with all physical and chemical ap- 

 paratus for milk, butter, and cheese tests, and the examination 

 of whey, forage, &c., and for practical and theoretical instruc- 

 tion ; (4) A library furnished with the best works on milk, 

 breeding of cattle, forage, &c., and the best and newest journals ; 

 (5) An exhibit of implements and models bearing on the milk 

 department, also newer and older implements and machinery 

 for correct and practical demonstrations ; (6) A good farm, with 

 60 head of cattle and a similar number of pigs. The farm to 

 be placed near the institution, conducted upon practical prin- 

 ciples, and therefore to serve to demonstrate to the pupils the 

 management of the cattle, feeding, milking, &c., and the utilisa- 

 tion of the whey refuse ; pig-breeding, pig-fattening ; and above 

 all, to make the pupils practically acquainted with cattle-breed- 

 ing, and the influence of feeding on milk production both as 

 to quality and quantity ; (7) Study and sleeping-rooms for the 

 pupils ; (8) A common dining-room. 



