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5s. 6d., and they cost for board £30, 15s. 2d ; on the other hand, 

 the payment for manager and teaching, with secretarial travelling 

 expenses, stationery, (fee, amounted to £232. The total payments 

 of the year amounted to about £1158, or £86, 16s. lOd. more 

 than the receipts. Here, then, is an instance of valuable work 

 being done at a small cost. Surely a case is made out for Govern- 

 ment assistance, which, even though paid at so much per pupil, 

 would amount to more than sufficient to maintain the school in 

 a useful state. This success has been so great, for so it should 

 be considered, that a second school is to be opened during the 

 current year in another part of the county. It is the intention 

 of the comriiittee to push investigation into the mysteries of 

 Cheshire cheese-making still further ahead, and to aim at the 

 production of a still finer quality of dairy j)i'0(luce. The 

 manager, Mr Willis, takes great personal interest in his work, 

 and has done good service ; while the help of Miss Connell has 

 been sought as demonstrator at some of the large agricultural 

 shows, where she has given every satisfaction. The chairman 

 of the directors is Mr George Barbour of Bolesworth Castle, an 

 untiring friend of the movement ; and the secretary is Mr 

 Thomas Rigby, whose name is now so closel}^ identified with 

 Cheshire dairy farming, and with the educational movement in 

 particular, and to whom so many persons seeking instruction are 

 indebted for help. The dairy school movement is also largely 

 indebted to Mr Tisdall, Mr Eoumieu, and Mr Thomas Nuttall. 



Ireland. 



The Albert National Agricultural Training Institution and 

 Dairy School, Glasnevin, Dublin. 



To Professor Carroll, the General Superintendent of the 

 Agricultural Department of National Education of Ireland, we 

 are not only indebted for considerable information in connection 

 with the Glasnevin Institution, and the Munster School, with 

 which he was formerly connected, but for personally showing us 

 all that could be seen, both in the institution itself, in the farm 

 buildings, and upon the three model farms. 



This institution is designed to supply instruction — 



(«) In the science and practice of agriculture to the sons of 

 farmers, to national teachers, and others. 



(6) In the most improved systems of dairpng to young women. 



The training institution is situated on the farm. The build- 

 ings comjDrise dormitories, dining hall, lecture and school-room, 

 museum, library, and laboratory ; an extensive range of farm 

 offices, and dairies fitted up with improved machinery and im- 

 plements. The farms and gardens, which contain about 180 

 statute acres, are situated about three miles north of Dublin, 



