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up farming operations. Now farmers sometimes expect their 

 sons, after completing their agricuUural college course, to bo 

 thorough!}- proficient, for example, in all the blacksmith work 

 required on their farms. All such ideas Mr. Perkins strongly 

 discourages at every opportunity, holding, as he does, that the 

 students should not endeavour to become in any sense specialists, 

 but that they should receive just the instruction which they need 

 — and a little beyond — in each actual branch of science or art, 

 for the main purpose for which the College exists. 



In discussing the subject of practical field work, Air. Cole- 

 batch expressed the opinion that the cultivated land of an agricul- 

 tural college should never be less than 20 acres per student in- 

 structed ; so that 1,000 acres — the area now under actual cultiva- 

 tion at Roseworthy — should just suffice for its 50 students, if all 

 are to do sufficient manual lai30ur to give them all-round practical 

 experience. A strong point is made of the students becoming 

 practically acquainted with all branches of manual labour re- 

 quired on the farm. 



The curriculum at Roseworthy Agricultural College is as 

 follows : — 



First year: Agriculture, Chemistry, Book-keeping, V'eterin- 

 ary anatomv. Phvsics, Botanv, Mathematics, and Eng 

 lis'h. 



Second year : Agriculture, Viticulture, Fruit culture, Chemis- 

 try, Surveying, Dairying, Veterinary physiology. Phy- 

 sics, and Wool-classing. 



Third year: Agriculture, Viticulture, Fruit culture, Chemis- 

 try, Surveying, Dairying, Veterinary science, Avicul- 

 ture, and Wool-classing. 



Entomology and zoology, it will be seen, do not enter into 

 the curriculum. 



The fees are £30 per annum, and arrangements may be made 

 for special six months' courses in dairying and aviculture. Par- 

 ticular attention is devoted to " diversified farming "' ; and, in 

 addition, valuable experiments are carried on in livestock breed- 

 intr, |x)ultry and dairy farming. 



Of all the lands connected with Roseworthy College, about 

 50 acres are under vines, but by far the greater area is devoted 

 to cereal cultivation — and not umiaturally, for 92 per cent, of 

 the cultivated land in the surrounding districts is under cereals. 

 In the Roseworthy district 20 bushels of wheat per acre, or two 

 and a quarter tons of hay, represent average yields, but it is held 

 that, with 15 inches of rain well distributed over the growing 

 period (April to November), 30 busltels of wheat, or three and 

 a quarter tons of hay, are ix)ssible. On the College wheat-lands, 

 where cultivation has been carried on for the last 50 years, the 

 soil, in common with all lands in the vicinity, lacks phosphates. 



This year, for the first time, the crops were found to be 

 affected with a white rust or mildew (thought to be Erysiphe 

 (jramhris). The exact nature of this mildew had not been ascer- 



