322 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



In Sierra Leone the late S. B. Thomas bequeathed the sum of $291,600 

 (£60,000) for the endowment of an agricultural college at Mabang. 

 The Government of Sierra Leone will cooperate in the management 

 of the college, the director of agriculture occupying a professorial 

 chair and the Government supplying three scholarships of $243 each 

 per annum for three years. 



ARGENTINA. 



The year 1909 was the first full year of the working of the new 

 program of agricultural education started in 1908, and it is stated 

 that the success of the enterprise has been marked. The existing 

 schools are not sufficient to meet the demands of many young men 

 who wish to study agriculture. The work of the different schools is 

 localized to a considerable extent, e. g., Tucuman has its sugar school 

 and Mendoza its wine-making school. 



A new higher normal school has been established at Buenos Aires, 

 with a three-year course for graduates of other normal schools or 

 those who have completed similar studies. There is also a decree 

 establishing rural normal schools in seven of the rural Provinces. 



AUSTRALIA. 



In New South Wales arrangements have been completed for the 

 dairy instructors of the Department of Agriculture to give practical 

 lessons in the testing of milk and cream to farmers' children attend- 

 ing the public schools in several different centers of the coastal region. 

 At the conclusion of the course the pupils will be expected to take an 

 examination to determine whether they have thoroughly mastered 

 the principles of milk testing. 



A number of dairy schools for factory managers have been held in 

 different parts of the Province, the first at the Berry butter factory, 

 the second at Lismore, and the third at Tamworth. At these schools 

 there were daily lectures covering the manufacture of butter from a 

 scientific standpoint, cream grading, cream and milk testing, the 

 value of bacteriological tests to the manufacturer, etc. 



In Queensland there is no agricultural instruction directly con- 

 nected with the education department, but the Government provides 

 a small grant for the encouragement of agriculture, horticulture, and 

 kindred subjects in the State schools, while experts from the State 

 college and farms periodically visit the schools in which elementary 

 agriculture is taught and give instruction to teachers and pupils. In 

 this and other ways a large number of teachers have secured a prac- 

 tical knowledge of milk and cream testing, and the subject is now reg- 

 ularly included in the program of instruction in several of the dairy 

 districts. 



