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shows in different j^arts of the country, notably at Boston, 

 where it was under Major Alvord's management, at New York, 

 at Orange County Fair, and at St Louis. In some States the 

 dairymen's associations have received grants of from £100 to 

 £200 a year from the Treasury. The agricultural stations of 

 America, which are growing rapidly in numbers and usefulness, 

 all receiving State aid, do good work in investigating dairy 

 (questions ; and more and more may be expected in this line. 

 Major Alvord concludes as follows : — " Supposing myself to be 

 pretty well posted on this subject, I regretfully generalise by 

 saying that, with the exception of the spasmodic efforts which I 

 have noted, there has been thus far no systematic or successful 

 instruction in dairying in this country which has had an ap- 

 preciable effect upon that industry." 



Let us add to these remarks that the American agricultural 

 press is the most valuable in the English language in com- 

 municating information upon dairy subjects. There are two 

 leading journals especially devoted to the work — TJte American 

 Dairyman and Hoard's Dairyman, while such journals as 

 the National Live-Stock Journal, Rural New-Yorker, and the 

 Albany Gultivaior treat the subject in a first-rate style. The 

 country, too, although admittedly large, can boast of scientific 

 and practical men, whose teaching is so general and so valuable 

 that the reading dairy farmer need scarcely demand further 

 State assistance. Among the States from which we have not 

 received more complete information quoted further on, are 

 Georgia ; the replies indicate that nothing is done in any way as 

 regards instruction, and consequently no State assistance is 

 received. Professor White of the State University considers 

 this a mortifying admission. 



We learn from President M'Bryde, of the South Carolina Col- 

 lege at Columbia, that the Legislature last year granted £2000 for 

 the establishment of two experiment stations, one in the upper and 

 the other in the lower part of the State. Last summer a giant 

 farmers' encampment was held, and a grant of several hundred 

 dollars from the State bureau was made in connection with it. 



As regards Pennsylvania, we are informed by Dr Armsby, so 

 well known throughout Europe, that he knows of no specific 

 dairy schools in his State, although the question receives atten- 

 tion in the college as well as in the experiment station. Like 

 many other writers, Dr Armsby speaks very highly of the 

 Massachusetts and Wisconsin stations, with the latter of which 

 he was, until recently, connected. There are, however, twelve or 

 fifteen institutes held yearly, the State granting them £600. 



Professor Roberts, of the Cornell Universit}-, states that the 

 instruction given at the various State colleges in dairy matters 

 lasts from two weeks to two months, and in some instances 

 practical work is done in the dairy-house. Instruction in 



