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Burnley, three miles from Melbourne, where tuition may be ob- 

 tained in fruit drying and preserving, and other branches of hor- 

 ticulture, as well as in the less cognate subjects of apiculture and 

 poultry farming. 



In the Heytesbury Forest large areas of grass-tree country 

 occur, and an experimental farm of 1.200 acres was established 

 there in 1906. for experiments in reclamation, with a view to 

 closer settlement. In Ballarat East, a small farm of no acres 

 was establis'hed at Mount Xavier, under the supervision of the 

 Principal of Ballarat District Orphanage, which adjoins the 

 farm. 



In order to provide suitable teachers to take agricultural 

 subjects in the primary and secondary schools, courses of lec- 

 tures on practical agriculture, accompanied by weekly demonstra- 

 tions of agricultural principles, are given at the Teachers' Train- 

 ing College. For farmers, agricultural lectures and demonstra- 

 tions are held in all parts of the State ; and the farmers' classes 

 ])re\iously referred to generally last a fortnight, and consist of 

 lectures, field demonstrations, and lantern discourses. 



The chemical, botanical, entomological, and other branches 

 of the Agricultural Department have their headquarters at Mel- 

 bourne, and the officers in charge of each are advisory towards 

 farmers collectively and as individuals, and at the same time 

 carry on research and investigation connected with their par- 

 ticular branches, administering also such statutes as the Artificial 

 Manures Act (of which the chemist is in charge), the Vegeta- 

 tion Diseases Acts, etc. 



Incidentally it was of interest to notice that the ch.'niical 

 laboratories of the Agricultural Department also carry on the 

 work required under the Excise Tariff Act. the Wine .Adultera- 

 tion Act, the Pure Foods Act, the Amended Poisons \:^t. and 

 the Commerce Act. 



New South Wales. 



Its Model Educational Sy.slnii. 



New South Wales has been indicated as the one State of 

 the Commonwealth which surmounts all the others in the t^xtent, 

 the complexity, and the ambition of its educational system. It 

 is in New South Wales also that agricultural education forms, 

 along with the trades school, the domestic school, and *^he ccm- 

 mercial school, a definite and integral part of the general systen? 

 of public education, a system beginning with the kindergarten, 

 and leading up continuously to the University. More than that. 

 Prof. Francis Anderson, of Sydney University, expects* that the 

 ideas and correlated system of the New South Wales scheme will 

 in time prevail throughovit the Commonwealth. 



A brief outline of the general scheme of education in the 



* " Educational Policy and Development " ; in tlie Federal Handbook 

 of the Commonwealth of Australia (1914). 528. 



