102 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



Agricultural Society holds three meetings during winter, when 

 discussions take place upon the papers read. The annual 

 appropriation for lectures is £160. 



To Professor Alvord of the State College, and who is so well 

 known in England, we are indebted for these details. 



Connecticut. — Mr T. S. Gold, one of the Commissioners of 

 the Board of Agriculture of Connecticut, which appears to be 

 composed of four gentlemen appointed by the governor and 

 Senate, and eight appointed by the Agricultural Society, states 

 that dairying is taught at the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale College, which netted £27,000 in 1862 by a land grant of 

 160,000 acres, upon which sum the State pays annual interest. 

 In retvu'n for this, twenty-three free scholarships are provided, 

 and dairying, in theory and practice, forms an important part 

 of the curriculum. Mr Gold says that the experiment station 

 does much work with feeding stuffs and dairy products, and that 

 the laws for the control of oleomargarine would fail but for its aid. 



Another school is at Mansfield, which receives a grant of 

 £1000 for its support. Here pupils pay £5 per annum, or 

 nothing if they are needy. They are taught practical dairying. 

 The grant from the State board is this year advanced from 

 £500 to £700. Lectures and meetings frequently occur, and 5000 

 copies of the report of what has been done are printed each year. 



Missouri. — Professor Sanborn, of the Agricultural College at 

 Columbia, Mo., says that there is only one institution in the 

 State where dairying is taught, and that there is no regularly 

 organised exiDeriment station. He adds, however, that the State 

 College carries on many experiments in connection with dairy 

 work out of its own funds ; there are no annual grants made, 

 but the college participates in the National Congressional Land 

 Grant of 1864. This, however, does not apply to the past year, 

 when the Legislature of the State granted £5000 for the im- 

 provement of the college farm and the purchasing of stock. Last 

 winter there were eighteen farmers' institutes or conferences 

 held, and for this purpose £140 was appropriated from the grant 

 to the Board of Agriculture. 



Nehraska. — Professor Bessey, of the Industrial College of the 

 University of Nebraska at Lincoln, says that dairying forms one 

 of the topics of instruction in the four years' agricultural course 

 at his college, and also in the elementary course of two years. 

 With regard to grants from the State, he adds, " the Legislature 

 simply grants a lump sum for the biennium." During the 

 current year the subvention for the experiment station amounted 

 to £1600. Conferences are held in the winter, but not in 

 connection with State management ; they number from three 

 to five each year. There is a flourishing State dairy association. 



Cdlifornia. — Mr Wickson, of the College of Agriculture of 

 the University of California at Berkeley, says there is only one 



