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the farm, and extends over four years, each session beginning in Sep- 

 tember and ending about the 1st of M&j.' Each student is not only 

 given free instruction, but if not a holder of a junior or senior agri- 

 cultural scholarship is allowed a sum not exceeding $2.40 per week 

 by the county council. Tuition fees are required of nonresident 

 students. 



The instruction given at the dairy school, the poultiy school, and 

 by means of lectures in different parts of the county is confined to 

 the single branch of agriculture under consideration, while the agri- 

 cultural work in Harris Institute includes also instruction m chem- 

 istry, zoology, mathematics, electrical engineering, mechanical engi- 

 neering, drawing, natural science, physics, surveying, and woodwork. 



SCOTLAND. 



In Scotland the new buildings for the Edinburgh and East of 

 Scotland College of Agriculture were formally opened February 28 

 by Lord Balfour, of Burleigh. These buildings, according to Nature, 

 are in Green Square, Edinburgh, and consist of well-equipped chem- 

 ical, botanical, and bacteriological laboratories and lecture rooms, 

 and class rooms for the various other subjects taught m the college. 

 Their cost has amounted to more than S45,000. 



IRELAND. 



According to the annual report of the Department of Agriculture 

 and Teclmical Instruction for Ireland, 1904-5, agricultural mstruction 

 was continued at the Royal College of Science, Dubim; the Albert 

 Agricultural College, Glasnevin; and at Munster Institute, Cork. At 

 the Royal College of Science 38 students were in attendance, at the 

 Albert Agricultural College 68, and at Munster Institute 50, the latter 

 all young women. The courses in dairying, calf rearing, poultry 

 keeping, gardening, sewing, cooking, and laundry work at the ^lun- 

 ster Institute are so highly appreciated that although only 50 stu- 

 dents can be admitted, there were at the time of this report nearly 

 250 applicants on the waiting list of the department. 



Winter agricultural schools, running from six to twenty-six weeks, 

 were held at sixteen centers and 317 students were enrolled. Twenty 

 itinerant instructors were at work during the year and attended a 

 total of 1 ,054 meetings of farmers. A larger num])er would have been 

 employed but for the difficulty of securing men of adequate training 

 and experience. To overcome this difficulty somewhat the depart- 

 ment held a forestry school for instructors in agriculture at Avondale 

 Forestry Station, a poultry-fattening school at Avondale Poultry Sta- 

 tion, and a bee-keeping school at Albert Agricultural College. 



The department also offers scholarsliips at the RoA^al College of 

 Science in Dublin and the Albert Agricultural College, Glasnevin, 



