TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND DAIRYING IN 

 EUROPE AND AMERICA. 



By Professor James Long, of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. ^ 



Introduction. 



The task of preparing an account of the means of education 

 afforded in the various countries of Europe and in America has 

 proved to be one of far greater magnitude than might be supposed 

 to be the case, especially when, as we hope and believe, it is both 

 authentic and comprehensive. In Europe alone, leaving Great 

 Britain out of the question, we have been able to procure con- 

 siderable information with regard to eleven countries, and with 

 the dairy system.s of seven of these we are well acquainted from 

 actual study and investigation on the spot. It is a strange fact 

 that even where dairy farming is a leading system of the 

 country, as in Switzerland and Denmark, it is next to impossible 

 to obtain full information from any central source, whether it be 

 from the Government or the leading dairy societies. In almost 

 every instance, where a nation is composed of separate states, 

 provinces, or cantons, the authorities in the one state are almost 

 ignorant of what' transpires in another. This being the case, 

 our task has been increased twentyfold, and the labour of pre- 

 paring this report cannot be gauged by its length or even by 

 the material of which it is composed. Hundreds of letters have 

 been written to obtain the data upon which to base it, whereas 

 these data, hidden in very many volumes, reports, prospectuses, 

 tables, and other matter printed or written in seven languages, 

 have only been extracted by lengthened study and with the 

 assistance of those friends whose names are mentioned here- 

 after. 



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