78 



Avliirh ended INIarcli 81, 11)01, have been selected as shoAving; what is 

 being done and the methods which each collegiate center referred to 

 has adopted in carrying on its "outside'' work: 



University College of North Wales, 

 external work. 



Ddiri/iii!/. — At the dairy sdiool at Lleweni Hull, near Denbigh, instruction was 

 given, as in previous years, in chci'se making. l)utter making, and in dairying 

 generally. The total pupils were in excess of former years, having numbered 

 101, of whom 74 came for periods of six weeks. A considerable number of these, 

 viz, .'M, came with county scholarships from Flint, Denbigh, and Anglesey, half 

 of them under the regular schemes whereby those who have shown themselves 

 proficient at the traveling classes during the year are awarded scholarships to 

 the fixed school, and half under a special scheme in the counties of Flint and 

 Denbigh to encourage iK>rsons to avail themselves of the lengthened courses in 

 cheese and butter making held at the school. 



At the Bangor dairy school, oi)ened as usual at the college, 14 pui)ils attended 

 a sjiecial fortnight's, course in butter making, all having l)een awarded scholar- 

 ships for this purpose by the coun<'ils for Anglesey and Carnarvonshire, after 

 they had shown aptitude as pupils at the traveling schools held in those two 

 counties. 



Examinations were held twice during the year at the Denbigh school and once 

 at the Bangor school. The awards at these examinations were — 



Advanced certificates in dairy work 5 



Ordinary certificates in cheese making 14 



Ordinary certificates in butter making 41 



Traveling schools for butter making instruction were held as follows: 



In Anglesey there were courses of ten days' instruction given at 2 centers. 

 The pupils numbered 'SA, and of these 18 took the full course. 



In Carnarvonshire instruction was given at '■'> centers, a second course being 

 held at one of them. Forty-two pupils attended, of whom :'.4 took a full course. 



In Flintshire courses of ten days' instruction were lii'ld at 3 centers. At 

 2 of these the instruction was on cheese making, and at the other on butter 

 making. The courses were attended by 10 i)ersons. all of whom remained for 

 the full period of instruction. 



In Denbighshire similar courses were held at o centers, those at 2 centers 

 being on butter making, and at the remaining center on cheese making. The 

 total pupils who attended numbered 30, of whom all Init two took the full 

 course. 



FichI th'iiioiistratioihs. — In Anglesey, irrespective of the college farm, experi- 

 ments were conducted at 5 centers. At 3 of these the experiments were of a 

 manurial character, the crops being swedes or pasture; at the remaining 2 

 centers the exi)eriments had reference to the suitability of different seed mix- 

 tures in laying land down to gi-ass. 



In Carnarvonshire experiments on the manuring of swedes and pasture took 

 place at 5 centers, while the interesting series of experiments on the improve- 

 njent of rough hill pasture, referred to in previous reports, was continued at 5 

 centers. Charlock spraying exiteriments took place at 3 centers. 



In Flintshire experiments were conducted at 4 centers, all on grass land, one 

 set being on the hill pa.sture just mentioned, while in Denbighshire pasture 

 experiments were in progress at 2 centers. 



