12 



EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



Net Cost 



1881-82, 

 1882-83, 

 1883-84, 

 1884-85, 

 1885-86, 

 188(-)-87, 



^1163 6 8 



1498 6 3 



1200 14 9 



1815 8 6 



2095 15 2 



2150 10 



Number of Pupils of all Classes. 



It will be remembered that when Professor Carroll was in 

 charge of the Mimster School his pupils took the leading prizes, 

 and many of them, at the two great dairy shows at Birmingham 

 and in London, in 1881 and 1882, although it was stated that 

 good butter could not be made on such land. This result 

 settled the question, and pupils commenced to enter the school 

 in large numbers. The wisdom of the course followed at Glas- 

 nevin is apparent, as the instruction is thereby rendered available 

 for the sons and daughter of the peasants, as well as for the sons 

 and daughters of large farmers. 



The Munster Dairy School. 



It is probable that no institution has achieved greater results 

 in connection with dairy instruction than the Munster Model 

 Agricultural and Dairy National School, which is within three 

 miles of Cork, and which exists for the instruction of young 

 men in the science and practice of agriculture and of young 

 women in dairy manageinent. During the conference of the 

 British Dairy Farmers' Association in May 1887, we had the 

 advantage of visiting this institution, and of personally seeing 

 the admirable manner in which it is managed by Mr Smyth, 

 the director. The school consists of an admirably arranged 

 building and farmstead, to which a farm of 126 acres is attached. 

 The soil is described as a sandstone debris, with a chalky sub- 

 soil. About two-thirds are gi-ass and the remainder arable, and 

 upon the farm are kej^t 35 milch cows, which are selected for 

 their milking qualities. The Conference party when at the 



