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Newton Riggs School provides systematic and practieal iiistrurtinn in cheese and 

 hutter making, rearing of live stock, rearing and dressing of iK)nltr,v, and gen- 

 eral farm work. A cheese dairy has heen recently added. There is accommoda- 

 tion for 10 resident pupils at a time. The course for male ])Ui)ils lasts sixteen 

 weeks and that for females for half this period. 



The county scheme provides for two founty agricultural scholarships of £5D, 

 tenahle for two or three years, at the agricultural college, Aspatria, or any 

 college in receipt of aid from the board of agriculture ; one exhibition of £l^>5 

 from the Newton Kigg School to a special coiu'se for farmers' sons at the Dur- 

 ham College of Science, and also for lio farm studentships, of the value of £4 and 

 £5 each, tena))le for periods of from eight to sixteen weeks at the county 

 dairy farm and school. 



Field experiments are conducted by arrangement with the Durham College of 

 Science under the direction of the professor of agriculture at that college. 



The work jierformed during l,S0!)-ir)(»O was as follows: 



Af/riciiUure. — Lectures were given at Hi centers before an average audience of 

 25. Each lecture dealt with some particular subject, but calf rearing and 

 turnip growing were most frequently selected. 



Diiiri/iii!/. — Owing to a vacancy in the post of teacher, the traveling dairy van 

 did not go out in the spring and sunnner, but an autumn cour.se was held, when 

 5 centers were visited, with an attendance of GO pupils. 



Hortii-iiltnrc. — Lectures are delivered on this subject in ever.y alternate month 

 by the lecturer in horticulture at the Durham College of Science in vii'tue of 

 an arr.-iugemeiit between the county councils of Cumberland and Northumberland 

 with the authorities of the college; 75 centers were visited, and the attendance 

 averaged 20, more hearers being generally attracted in the spring and sunnner 

 than in the winter. 



PoiOtnj k(<i)hi(i. — One, two, or three lectures on poultry rearing and manage- 

 ment were given at 29 centers, the attendance being ?>;> on the average. 



ScJiol(in<]iii)s. — No major agricultural scholarships were awarded during the 

 year, but nine studentships of £5 each, one of £4 10s., six of £4, and one of £3 

 were awarded at the Newton Kigg Farm School. 



Experiments. — The field exiicrimeiits were conlinued on much 1lic same lines 

 as before and have l)een noticed in connection with the woric done by the Dur- 

 ham College of Science. 



County of Esskx. 



The technical education connnittee have estal)lislied county technical labora- 

 tories at Chelmsford. In connection with these "schools" of horticultm-e and 

 agriculture have been organized. Two courses in agriculture, each of three 

 weeks' duration, are held in the autunni and wint(>r at the lalioratories, while 

 there are three weeks' elementary courses in horticulture in the sunnner. 

 autunm, and winter, as well as a more advanced course of four weeks in the 

 spring. A garden has been acquired and is divided into four maiu divisions, 

 viz, botanical, A'egetable, fruit growing, and experimental. 



Arrangements have also been made for the analysis, at the county laborato- 

 ries, of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, soils, nnlk, butter, water, etc., and for the 

 examination of seeds and diseases of plants, etc., for Essex farmers at moderate 

 fees. 



Ten days' courses of ])ractical lessons in butt(>r and soft cheese making are 

 pnnided by a traveling dairy school, which visits \nrious centers. These 

 elasses are limited in each case to Id jinpils. but visitors are ;i(biiitt("d as spec- 

 tators. Lectures are also given on the bacterial contaminations antl on the 



