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with their report thereon, to the development commissioners." To 

 enable the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to deal effectively with 

 applications coming under its jurisdiction, an advisory committee on 

 agricultural science has been appointed, which will submit reports on 

 application to the board. 



According to a report issued in 1910 the grants awarded by the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for agricultural instruction in 

 England and Wales amounted in 1908-9 to $58,320 and in 1909-10 to 

 $59,778. There were also special grants for experimentation and 

 research amounting in 1908-9 to $4,423 and in 1909-10 to $2,916. 

 Grants for experimentation have been given for a number of years, 

 but not until 1908-9 was there any grant to an institution for research 

 work — a grant of $972 to the University of Cambridge for cereal- 

 breeding investigations. 



It is announced that a well-known firm of shipping agents in Lon- 

 don has established Craig Wood Lodge colonial training farm at 

 Horsted Keynes, Sussex County, England, for the purpose of test- 

 ing the capacity and fitness of young men wishing to go to the 

 colonies. The farm comprises 20 acres and is said to be w^ell equipped 

 with live stock, poultry, fruit, kitchen garden, etc. At present there 

 are accommodations for 15 pupils. The instruction is entirely prac- 

 tical, covering the elements of mixed and dairy farming. The course 

 extends over two months, and if at the end of that time the pupil is 

 found adapted to colonial farming the firm undertakes to place him 

 with a reliable farmer in Canada or Australia. 



The new building of the school of agriculture at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity was formally opened April 26, 1910, by the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. The building is an imposing three-story structure in addition 

 to the basement and attic, and contains three lecture rooms, two large 

 elementary laboratories for chemistiy and botany, smaller rooms for 

 private research, and a library and offices. The cost of the building 

 was about $100,000. It was designed to accommodate 100 students, 

 but is already barely adequate for the needs of the work. 



According to the ninth annual general report of the Department 

 of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, there Avas an 

 increase in the number of itinerant instructors in agriculture, horti- 

 culture, beekeeping, poultry keeping, butter making, rural domestic 

 economy, and other subjects, and an increased attendance at the 

 winter agricultural classes, the schools of rural domestic economy, 

 and the summer courses for teachers held in July and August at 

 various institutions. 



BRITISH WEST INDIES. 



Arrangements have been made in Antigua and St. Kitts for coop- 

 eration between the public granmiar schools and the botanical and 



