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Association, including Dr. A. Lauder, of the Edinburgh and 

 East of Scotland College of Agriculture, and Air. J. Golding. 

 F.I.C., of University College, Reading, Recorder of the Agri- 

 cultural Section of the British Association. 



The road to the college traverses extensive cultivated grain 

 lands, which had in their original condition presented that re- 

 semblance to a park that I have already referred to. The land.^ 

 were scattered over with trees, such as the Alallee Box 

 {Eucalyptus loiu/ifolia) and a species of Callitris or native 

 pine. The former is used largely as firewood, and it is said 

 that there is no other tree better fitted to serve that object. 

 The poorer lands are thickl}' covered with a weed known as 

 " stinkwort," wiiile the Mallee Box flourishes on limestone 

 areas, and the Callitris principally on the sandhills. 



It is interesting to note that a larger number of old Rose- 

 worthians occupy professional positions in other Australian 

 States than alumni of any other Australian institution. Many 

 others who have received their agricultural training at Rose- 

 worthy are now amongst the most prosperous farmers in South 

 Australia. The present ])rinci]>al of Rosew^orthy College, who 

 had only just taken up his charge there, is Mr. W. J. Colebatch. 

 B.Sc, M.R.C.V.S., late manager of Kybybolite Experimental 

 Farm, and Superintendent of Agriculture in the south-east of 

 the State. Mr. Colebatch is himself an old pupil of Roseworthy, 

 and was its gold medallist in 1898, and, according to the Hon. 

 T. Pascoe, M.L.C., Minister of Agriculture, his appointment 

 marks the first occasion in the history of Australia on which a 

 former student of a college has risen to be its principal. 



The former j^rincipal of Roseworthy was Air. A. J. Perkins, 

 who was api^ointed a lecturer there in 1893, became principal in 

 1904. and had just been promoted to the post of Director of 

 Agriculture for the State of South Australia, in place of Mr. 

 W. Lowrie, M.A., B.Sc. 



In the Commonwealth, unlike South Africa, each State has 

 its own Agricultural Department ; and, when discussing the 

 merits of the respective systems, one detected, now and again, 

 latent fears that substitution of one Commonw^ealth Department 

 for those of the dift'erent States might not prove an unalloyed 

 advaiitage for those States which possess the most efticient de- 

 partments under tiieir j)resent system. 



Both Air. Perkins and Air. Colebatch spontaneously and 

 emphatically expressed the view that the system of instruction 

 adopted at Roseworthy is not a system artificially imposed on 

 the coimtry. but one that has been developed along the lines of 

 the country's manifested needs. Sounder views there cannot be. 



In some countries, systems of short courses are favoured 

 in connection with institutions whose aim is to provide agricul- 

 tin-al education. Of at least one type of short course the South 

 Australian Director of Agriculture expressed unf|ualified dis- 

 approval. The staft'. he said, has no time for anything except the 

 legitimate work of the College, namely, to fit the students to take 



