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College of Wales, at Aberystwyth; University College, at Reading; 

 Midland Agricultural and Dairy Institute; Harper Adams Agricul- 

 tural College; l^)ritisli Dairy Institute, Reading; Agricultural and 

 Horticultural School, Holms Chapel; Agricultural and Horticultural 

 College, Wickfield; Harris Institution, Preston; Eastern Counties 

 Dairy Institute, at Ipswich; National Fruit and Cider Institute; 

 and Cumberland and Westmoreland Farm School. 



Each of these is a center and acts for one or more counties. The 

 University College of North Wales, at Bangor, is a center for the 

 counties of Anglesey, Carnovan, Flint, Denbigh, and part of Mont- 

 gomery. The Durham College of Science is a center for the counties 

 of Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, and the other Institu- 

 tions act as centers for similar groups. 



These institutions, besides giving instruction in agriculture in their 

 regular courses indoors, leading to appropriate academic degrees, 

 engage likewise in " external " instruction work out in the counties 

 that compose their respective districts. This work consists of courses 

 of lectures and demonstrations before classes in various localities or 

 centers made up of farmers or farmers' boys. 



The parliamentary grant was declared to be in " aid of agricultural 

 and dairy schools and for agricultural experiments." It is therefore 

 applicable to all forms of agricultural instruction, such as the train- 

 ing of teachers and local lecturers, the equipment of dairy schools, 

 the conducting of experiment farms, and fields of demonstration. 



The general educational scheme of such a collegiate institution is 

 outlined in one of the reports of the secretary of the board of agri- 

 culture as follows: 



I. The training of ajj;ricultural teachers. 



II. The iuipartiug of direct education in the sciences hearing on agriculture 

 to resident pupils. 



III. The diffusion of general knowledge and a promotion of a spirit of iiuiuiry 

 among those already engaged in agricultural work hy means of perii)atetic 

 lectures and evening classes. 



IV. The technical training of pupils or of actual workers in special forms of 

 agricultural industry, such as dairy work, forestry, fruit growing, etc. 



V. The conducting of experiment work, affording in different centers means of 

 illustrating the bearing of scientific research on exemplary agricultural practice. 



The special purpose of the Government in organizing these " colle- 

 giate centers '' is outlined in a report of the board of agriculture for 

 1895. The report states that — 



The collegiate centers are intended to provide efficient and regularly organized 

 indoor training for a certain more or less necessarily limited number of students 

 pursuing a continuous course of study for two or more consecutive years. 'J'hey 

 also offer a variety of other and more temporary courses of instruction. 



The educational staff and machinery of the center is also made available for tlie 

 work of the surrounding county authorities and in part f(»r the conduct of 



