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course is of two years with & special practical course of from one to 

 three months : no fees are charged nor are students aided ; all students 

 must be boarders except for good reason. The subjects of the regular 

 course are, in the first year, general fishing, marine zoology, botany, 

 chemistry and physics, and in the second term of the same year 

 catching, preserving, culture, applied zoology and botany, physical 

 geography and meteorology, applied physics and chemistiy, and 

 practical work; the second year is devoted solely to practical work in 

 catching, preserving and culture. No more than 30 students are taken 

 and must be over 16 years of age and have passed six years at a 

 primary school and be healthy. The special practical course is only for 

 those actually engaged in fishery work or their sons ; the subjects in 

 the ' catching' course are (1) the preparation of hooks and lines and 

 methods of fishing and the mode of preserving bait, (2) the preparation 

 (making, barking, etc.), and handling of nets, and (-3) the making and 

 use of other fishing implements ; in the ' 'preservation ' course, the 

 methods, recipes for seasoning, manufacture of oil and wax, and the 

 making of vegetable isinglass (from seaweed) : in the ' manure ' 

 course the constituents and preparation of the several classes of fish 

 fertiliser ; in the ' culture ' course fresh water culture including 

 salmon hatching, the hatching and growth of carp, gold-fish, eel, 

 mullet, and snapping turtle ; and in marine culture the growing of 

 shells and algse. No fees are paid and the students must be over 

 18 years of age ; the places of instruction are settled from time to 

 time. 



86. The staff consists in all of fourteen persons, including a prin- 

 cipal, an expert, and two assistant experts, etc. Three-fourths of the 

 23 graduates are now actually engaged in fisheries or as experts under 

 Government or Companies, and all, but two of the 11 graduates 

 of the special course, are actual fishermen: out of 18 graduates in 

 the practical course, 13 are engaged in actual fishing work. The 

 information given me was only up to 1901. 



87. In a similar school the practical course embraces long line 

 fishing for sharks, yellow-tail (Seriola quinqueradiata), hand line fish- 

 iug for squid, yellow-tail, etc., and the culture of carp. Students 

 must be primary school graduates, above 18 years of age and engaged 

 in actual fishery ; they pay no fee and get Rs. 3 per month from the 

 school in aid of their expenses. 



88. Sessional Schools. — These are the courses held by itinerant 

 teachers usually attached to experimental stations or to schools, 

 chiefly the former. They have been mentioned above, s.v., " Experi- 

 meutal Stations,'^ paragraph 32. The following note relates to one of 

 these sets of courses in the Chiba district where they were opened in five 

 places to teach methods which had been proved useful by actual experi- 

 ment ; one was at the experimental station and four others at selected 



