2 EDUCATIOX IX DAIRY FARMING, AND 



It will bo found that the whole of the countries with which 

 we deal are now specially alive to the great necessity of dairy 

 instruction, that in many cases the State aid given is much less 

 than has been supposed, whereas in others it is considerably 

 more. In almost every instance, however, there is promise of 

 further assistance, more especially where the butter-makers of 

 the East are formulating fresh attacks upon the markets of this 

 country. The report clearly indicates two leading facts, that 

 Europe is being rapidly educated in the production of butter and 

 cheese as well as in the improvement of dairy cattle, and in better 

 systems of feeding and producing food, and that country after 

 country is now ready, and will gradually grow more anxious, to 

 supply us, and indeed will supply us, if we exhibit our inca- 

 pacity to supply ourselves either as regards quantity or quality. 

 We shall not, however, be able to compete in our own markets 

 until our people have been taught how to make dairy produce 

 equal, en hloc, to that from other countries, as well as to make 

 that class of cheese peculiar to various parts of the Continent 

 which we already consume in regularly increasing quantities. 

 It will be noticed that the dairy schools of the Continent are to 

 a very large extent adapted to the requirements of the lower 

 classes of persons engaged in agriculture. This is as it should 

 be, for where it is necessary for one person to pass through a 

 curriculum of science and practice at a college or dairy station, 

 it is necessary for twenty or more to master the details of prac- 

 tice only. In a word, at least twenty workers should be trained 

 to one teacher, whether he is to be an employer of labour, a 

 director, or a person actually engaged in instructing others. 

 Again, it will be noticed that the majority of the schools have 

 both cattle and land, without which little can be taught in the 

 direction of practice. Experiment stations are justly esteemed 

 in the leading dairy countries, and from what we know of their 

 work, we are of opinion that their influence is greater than that 

 of the actual schools, although they are so few in number. It is 

 their work which has set others thinking, which has been pro- 

 ductive of great economy, and which has been the leading fea- 

 ture in moving others to attempt to found practical schools 

 throughout the whole of the countries referred to in this report. 

 A dairy experiment station, where science and practice work 

 hand in hand, is calculated to be of the greatest possible service 

 to agriculture ; its teaching reaches the whole of the educated 

 classes, whose influence upon those less fortunate than them- 

 selves can scarcely be estimated. It is to be hoped that a 

 station of this kind will be established in Great Britain. This 

 work would create greater economy in the production of crops, in 

 the preparation of foods, and, consequently, in the production of 

 milk. It would assist in solving the thousand problems which 



