222 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA. 



tralia, clearly recognizes the difference between an experiment 

 station and an agricultural school or college. 



But in Victoria, as in South Australia, and as in the United 

 States of America, one may also find both the distinct functions 

 performed at one institution. Such an institution is the Agri- 

 cultural College and Experimental Farm at Dookie. It is much 

 larger than Roseworthy. extending over some 6,000 acres, and 

 accommodates cSo students. At Longerenong. near Horsham, 

 there is another college and farm, accommodating 40 students. 

 At Melbourne University there is a School of Agriculture, pre- 

 ^jded over by a professor of agriculture, but not furnished with 

 an" exptT.'""^^"^^' i^^xca. Moreover, the Education Department 

 of Victoria has established a number of agricultural high schools, 

 or, as they are described, -"SvCond^ry schools with an agricutural 

 bias " ; and every primary school in the State has its special 

 garden and experimental plot, as it is called. These plots are, 

 of course, not strictly " experimental " ; they are demonstrational. 

 Experimental they may be only from the child's view-point, 

 that is, they are intended to demonstrate to him, by his own 

 personal experience, agricultural facts already well-known tc 

 Science ; they are in no sense of the word of an investigational 

 or research character. One cannot, in view of the confusion 

 often apparent in the mind of the general dealer, emphasise 

 these distinctions sufficiently strongly. 



Agricultural Training In Victoria. 



The full scheme of agricultural education in the State of 

 Victoria comprises the following activities : — 



1. Agriculture at the State schools. 



2. Agricultural high schools. 



3. Lectures and demonstrations to farmers. 



4. Farmers' classes. 



5. Agricultural colleges. 



6. Demonstration and experimental farms. 



7. University course in agriculture. 



8. Livestock Institute and veterinary course. 



The necessary equipment to carry out this scheme is pro- 

 vided by means of four classes of institutions: — 



( a) Primary schools and agricultural high schools, con- 



trolled by the Education Department. 



(b) The Dookie and Longerenong Colleges, controlled by a 



" Council of .Vgricultural Education.'"* 

 ic) The Werribee Experimental Farm, controlled by the 



Department of Agriculture. 

 {d) The Agricultural School of Melbourne University. 



In addition there is the Department of Irrigation, with its 

 own special functions and activities. 



* In all the Australian States, Victoria alone excepted, the agricultura! 

 colleges are under the direct control of the respective Departments of 

 Agriculture. 



