G EDUCATION IX DAIRY FARMING, AND 



parturition, calf-reariug, feeding and grazing, treatment in 

 health and disease, is given by means of farm classes, and by 

 encouraging the students to compete for prizes in milking, 

 butter-making, cheese-making, and in the management of cows. 

 There are also lectures on parturition, and the diseases of cows 

 and calves. The dairy house is sufficiently commodious for 

 ordinary purposes, and is furnished with a cream separator, 

 apparatus for butter-making, for cheese-making, and for cooling 

 milk for London. A milk register is kept of the yield of every 

 cow twice daily. The results of the register are from time to 

 time communicated to every student. There are at present be- 

 tween 50 and 60 students receiving instruction at the college. 



Aspatria Agricultural College. 



This coUegewas established inl874for the education of students 

 in special and practical instruction in the sciences connected 

 with agriculture. The system includes courses of lectures, 

 laboratory work, and daily lessons in the land, arrangements 

 having been made with five farmers in the neighbourhood, 

 whose farms are at all times free of access. Two of these farms 

 are dairy farms, where butter and cheese making is taught. 

 This plan, however, Dr Webb considers has not been quite 

 satisfactory, but now that a dairy factory has been established 

 he hopes to get a special school in connection with it. Scholar- 

 ships, gold, silver, and bronze medals, and diplomas are awarded 

 to successful students, and several scholarships of the Royal 

 Agricultural and Highland Societies have already gone to the 

 college. There are three terms of three months each, and the 

 fees are from 15 to 17 guineas per term for students under 

 twenty. The system at Aspatria is well worthy of attention, and 

 appears to be specially well designed for the combined general, 

 scientific, and agricultural instruction of young students. 



Hollesley Bay College and Farm. 



The principal, Mr Robert Johnson, informs us that dairy 

 instruction is a leading feature in the curriculum of this 

 college. The students receive practical teaching in the feeding 

 and management of cows; they also milk, churn, and make the 

 butter. The old dairy being inadequate for the requirements of 

 the college, a new one is to be built, and is expected to be 

 finished during the spring. This is to be capable of receiving 

 the produce of 100 cows. The present dairy is furnished with 

 a separator. Mr Johnson states that the students milk well, 

 and that the dairy is a favourite branch of their instruction. 

 He proposes, when the new dairy is complete, to illustrate the 

 whole of the systems of cream separation — the ordinary shallow- 



