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with the threefold object of teaching, experiment, and research. 

 The idea was well received, and the council at once proceeded to 

 carry it out. A committee was formed, a scheme drawn up, and 

 visits made to suitable localities. Aylesbury was finally selected, 

 and meetings held, which were addressed by delegates from the 

 Association. The Bucks farmers formed a local committee, with 

 the view of obtaining support — the council of the Association 

 having determined not to commit itself until £500 had been 

 subscribed, when it promised to add £100, and to make an 

 annual grant if necessary. Up to the time we write, the scheme 

 has received the support of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord 

 Rothschild, Mr Leopold Rothschild, Sir Harry Verney, and 

 many of the landed gentry of the county ; and, in addition, a 

 large number of farmers have consented to subscribe for three 

 years. As the money will be easily obtained, and as a suitable 

 building can be secured, it is probable that the institute will be 

 the first of its kind in this country, and that it will, moreover, 

 earn the right to receive a liberal grant from the Government. 



A movement has been inaugurated in Scotland by Mr A. W. 

 Cruikshank, who desires to found a dairy school for Forfar and 

 Kincardine shires ; and there is some probability of a second 

 school being started in Cheshire, and of a new one in Leicester- 

 shire, important meetings having recently been held with that 

 object, which we were invited to address, the initiative being 

 due to Mr Thomas Nuttall. 



France. 



We are indebted to numerous friends in France for particulars 

 of the dairy instruction which is being communicated in that 

 country, but especially to Professor Leze, the editor of L' Indus- 

 trie Laitiere, and to M. Wery, secretary of the Institut 

 National Agronomique, who kindly gave us introductions to the 

 directors of the principal dairy schools. 



There are already existing, or about to open in France, six 

 dairy schools, viz. : — 



Coigny (Manche), | g ^ 



Saulxsurres (Vosges), . . . .J o } ■*^ 



Saint Remy (Haute Saone). 



Coetlogan, near Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). 



Schools are also in process of erection at Aumale (Seine 

 Inferieure), Maroilles (Nord) — all of which receive assistance 

 from the Government. The first two schools are in connection 

 with the farm schools forming one of the branches of French 

 agricultural education, which is divided into four systems. The 

 principal system is centred in the Institut National Agrono- 

 mique at Paris ; the second system in the three colleges of 

 Grignon Grand Jouan, and Montpellier ; the third system in- 



