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each scholarship to inchide free tuition for one year, a third-class rail- 

 way fare to and from college, and either a maintenance allowance of 

 S5 a week if in attendance at the Royal College of Science or free 

 board and lodging at the Albert Agricultural College. These scholar- 

 ships are good for one year, but may be renewed for two or three years 

 to enable students to complete the agricultural course. In order to 

 assist domestic-economy students the department offers ten open 

 scholarships and ten limited scholarships at the Irish Training School 

 of Domestic Economy, Dublin. These scholarships will entitle the 

 holders to free admission to the full course of training for teachers of 

 subjects in domestic economy. Arrangements have also been made 

 by the department for the reception of a small number of students at 

 St. Mary's Convent of Mercy, Portumna, to pursue studies in dairying, 

 poultry keeping, horticulture, household management, cookery, laun- 

 dering, etc. 



The department further announces that it is prepared to assist 

 county committees in securing instructors in agriculture, poultry 

 keeping, horticulture, and the management of bees, and butter mak- 

 ing, one instructor in each subject for each county. The duties of 

 these instructors will be to deliver courses of lectures, visit farms, 

 conduct experiments and demonstrations; assist in teaching agricul- 

 tural classes provided for by the department* correspond with farm- 

 erSj and otherwise advise them. 



BELGIUM. 



The system of agricultural education m Belgium is described in an 

 official document prepared by the Belgium department of agriculture 

 for distribution at the Universal Exposition in Liege in 1905. This 

 description includes the following classes of institutions: 



(1) Colleges — the State School of Veterinary Medicine at Brussels, 

 ' the Agricultural Institute at Gembloux, and the Agronomic Institute 



of the University of Lou vain. 



(2) Secondary schools, of which there are three separate agricul- 

 tural schools located at Carlsbourg, La Louviere, and Huy, and six- 

 teen agricultural schools conducted as departments of other educa- 

 tional institutions; courses of agronomy in royal atheneums; State 

 schools of horticulture at Ghent and Vilvorde, and private subsidized 

 schools of horticulture at Mons, Tournai, Liege, and Carlsbourg, and 

 a school of practical horseshoeing at Molenbeek-St.-Jean. 



(3) Agricultural schools for women, including one higher agricul- 

 tural school in connection with the Institute of the Sacred Heart and 

 Immaculate Conception at Heverle; and ten secondary schools, 

 located, respectively, at Bastogne, Bouchout, Brugelette, Herve, 

 Gooreind, Gyseghem, Oosterloo, Overyssche, 'S Gravenwezei, and 

 Virton ; besides three schools having departments for women located, 



