1918] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 295 



showing the area, types of soil, acreage in various crops, educational and re- 

 ligious facilities, banking conditions, and value of farm lands. 



Agricultural statistics of Ireland {Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr: Ireland, Agr. 

 Statis. 1915, pp. 110). — This report is a continuation of previous reports 

 (E. S. R., 36, pp. 393), adding data for the year 1915. 



[Agriculture in Norway] {Statis. Aarhok Konger. Norge, 35 (1915), pp. 

 23-36). — These pages continue data previously noted (E. S. R., 33, p. 594) by 

 adding statistics for the year 1915. 



[Agricultural statistics of Russia for 1915] {Sborn. Statis. Zkon. Sviedien. 

 Selsk. Klioz. Ross, i Inostran. Gosud. (Rec. Domiees Statis. et Econ. Indus. Agr. 

 Russ. ct Fays. Etrangers), 10 (1917), pp. XIV +673). — This report continues data 

 previously noted (B. S. K., 36, p. 594), adding information for 1915. 



[Annual statistics of Egypt] (Ann. Statis. Egypte, 8 (1916), pp. 10^-153, 

 pi. 1). — This report continues data previously noted (E. S. R., 35, p. 894), 

 giving stetistics for later years. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Report of the education branch for the year 1915-16 (Jour. Bd. Agr. [Lon- 

 don^, 2Jt (1917), No. 4, pp. 3S5-394) .—This is the annual report of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries dealing with the agricultural education work of 

 the various institutions and local authorities in England and Wales for 1915-16, 

 as well as with the payments of grants during the financial year ended March 

 31, 1916. 



During the year it was decided as a measure of war economy to suspend the 

 grants to the Harris Institute, Preston, and to the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's School at Wisley. The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and the 

 Agricultural College, Uckfield, Sussex, were closed in the summer of 1915, owing 

 mainly to the serious decrease in attendance. All of the institutions have suf- 

 fered as a result of the war. Their attendance in 1914r-15 was as follows : 

 Long courses, 758, short courses, 666, as compared with 1,194 and 490, respec- 

 tively, in 1913-14, and 1,284 and 593 in 1912-13. The new buildings at the 

 Armstrong College, Newcastle, have been wholly utilized as a hospital since 

 the beginning of the war, and rooms in the School of Agriculture, Cambridge, 

 and in Wye College, were occupied for a time for military purposes. The Royal 

 Veterinary College, London, is the only institution whose activities have not 

 seriously diminished. 



Local authorities held 292 organized day courses in 1915-16, attended by 

 2,963 students, as compared with 341 courses with an attendance of 3,544 in 

 the previous year. The greater part of these courses were attended by women 

 and were held in connection with traveling dairy schools. In several counties 

 courses in farriery were held for soldiers. One hundred and seventy-one eve- 

 ning courses were held, attended by 3.227 pupils, as compared with 297 courses 

 attended by 4,975 pupils in 1914-15. Classes in manual processes (hedging, 

 plowing, milking, etc.) were held in 12 counties, the total number of meetings 

 being 644 ; in the previous year 2,071 meetings were held in 21 counties. 



To encourage cheese making instead of butter making, with a view both of 

 conserving the food supply and the economical utilization of surplus milk, the 

 board developed a scheme of esti'.blishing traveling cheese schools, imder which 

 it loaned sets of apparatus to local authorities who agreed to make new and 

 additional provision for itinerant instruction in this subject. Nineteen authori- 

 ties availed themselves of this offer, and 33 new schools were created in addi- 

 tion to 5 previously in existence. 



