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numerous meetino^s of only two or tliroo sessions eacli, fewer arc held, 

 but these are continued for at least ten to liftccn days. Instead of 

 presenting many subjects for consideration, but one or at the most 

 two are discussed, and these are treated in a carefully planned course 

 of lectures, accompanied with practical demonstrations. Instead of 

 large and motley assemblages of people being addressed, a fewer 

 number are taught, and these are instructed in regular classes that 

 meet day after day throughout the entire course. 



The traveling schools are thoroughly equipped. They are provided 

 with the newest and best apparatus in order that the scholars may 

 have the advantage of seeing and using the latest and l)est machinery 

 and most approved methods in use in the special line of Avork treated. 



An examinaticm of the reports also show^s that the organization of 

 the work providing for peripatetic instruction for farmers has been 

 planned most carefully not only with respect to its present efficiency, 

 but with the view also to its permanency and future development. 

 The matter of continual and adequate support has been amply pro- 

 vided for. The county, out of its revenues from the excise fund, 

 meets the largest part of the expense; at the same time each locality 

 and individual directly benefited is required to bear a proi)er share 

 of the cost. 



The general policy controlling and directing the work has a like 

 degree of permanency that contributes to the strength of the work. 

 No change of national administration or dej^ression in business or 

 temporary political or social upheaval among the people can suddenly 

 overthrow it. At the same time there is a degree of flexibility per- 

 mitted in carrying out the scheme that i)erniits of such gradual 

 change and improvement as experience may show to be necessary. 



College Work in Agriculture. 



As has been stated, the funds provided under the original grant for 

 agricultural education made by Parliament in 1888 were widely dis- 

 tributed. They were used to aid not simply the colleges and higher 

 institutions of learning, but were likewise given for the support of 

 the local schools established by the county councils. Later, Avhen the. 

 counties became the recipients of aid from the excise fund, the parlia- 

 mentary grant Avas AvithdraAvn and given to the institutions Avhich 

 had been chosen by the board of agriculture in the scA'eral ])roduce 

 districts as centers for agricultural education. 



In 11)03—1: there Avere sixteen of these institutions receiving aid 

 from the grant of the General Government. The UniA'ersity College 

 of North Wales, at Bangor; Yorkshire College, at Leeds; Durham 

 College of Science, at Newcastle-on-Tyne; Cambridge UniA'ersity. at 

 Cambridge; South Eastern Agricultural College, at Wye; University 



