62 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



because of the absence of efficacious control, particularly with 

 regard to the manner in which the milk is produced, and 

 because the verification of the milk often gives no result, and 

 in any case only gives one too late to avoid loss. For this 

 reason the department is to-day more than ever persuaded that 

 skilled instructors, acting between the factory owner and the 

 farmer, will be able to render important services. On the other 

 hand, for different reasons it would appear to be the role of the 

 cantons, rather than that of the agricultural societies, to take 

 up this means of assisting the dairy industry ; we therefore re- 

 commend the question to your notice, and we declare ourselves 

 willing, wherever such an act can be shown to be useful, to pro- 

 pose in the budget a credit for subventions corresponding to the 

 necessities of the case. We recommend you strongly to be 

 prudent in the selection of teachers, in order that the system of 

 instruction may obtain the confidence of the public." 



Resolution of the Government concerning the Establishment of a Dairy 



School, March 18, 1887. 



Art. I. It is determined to open a dairy school on the Govern- 

 ment property of Riitti, from the 1st May to the 1st November 

 of the current year, as one of the divisions of the agricultural 

 establishment.. 



Art. II. The school will be united with the Cheese Association 

 of Zollikofen. (It appears that milk is purchased by this asso- 

 ciation under contract, between 1st May in one year and the 

 30th April in the year follomng. In this case it would seem 

 that the Government require to ratify the contracts before they 

 are concluded.) 



Art. III. The Government require to ratify the arrangement 

 made for the management of the factory, which must be pro- 

 vided Avith a qualified first-class cheese-maker and an assistant, 

 both of whom will be required in an exemplary manner to 

 impart instruction in the manufacture of milk products. 



Art. IV. On the 1st May, four to six young men will be taken 

 for the six summer months as dairy scholars, all of whom vAW 

 be required to submit to the rules and laws of the agricultural 

 school of Rtitti. 



Art. V. The cost of instruction of each pupil will, like that of 

 the agricultural scholars, be fixed at 150 francs (£6) for the half 

 year ; one, two, or three scholars "vvill in some cases be selected. 



Art. VI. Outside teachers will be provided for the instruction 

 of the pupils in the theory of milk management. The pupils 

 will be able to take up other branches of study, and their hours 

 will be arranged that they may be in common with pupils of 

 the agricultural school. 



Art. VII. A commission, composed of three persons specially 



