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'■-::, 3. Forty-two candidates were examined at the Scottish 

 centre, of whom the following twenty satisfied the Ex- 

 aminers, and have been awarded the Diploma: — 



Scottish Centre. 



Walter Ian Black, Bogany, Kothesay, Bute. 



Benjamin Browne, Jun., The Boot, Windermere. 



Richard Brtden, Kingencleugh, Mauchline. 



Frank E. Corrie, Griffel House, Doncaster. 



David W. Ferguson, Cumwhitton, Heads Nook, ftirlisle. 



Thomas R. Ferris, Market Lavington, Wiltshire. 



Samuel Gibson, Auchengibbert, Crocketford, Dumfries. 



Miss Jessie Grant, Wester Alves, Alves. 



Robert Hall. Holmbank, Cark-in-Cartmel, Lanes. 



James McKessack Lbitch, Inchstelly, Alves. 



Andrew C. McCandlish, Claunch, Sorbie, Wigtownshire. 



Patrick W. Mackenzie, Andross Mains, Alness. 



Maurice Malcolm, Dunmore Farm, by Larbert. 



Miss Irene Mechan, 12 Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill, Glasgow. 



David Arnott Mitchell, Bennan, Straiten, Maybole. 



George N. M. Morrell, 1 Commercial Street, Harrogate. 



James Robinson, Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



William Smith, Wintersell Farm, Eden Bridge, Kent. 



Miss Jessie E. Stephen, Willaston, Nantwich. 



William Airey Yates, Downham, Clitheroe, Lanes. 



4. The Examiner in General Dairying (Mr. John Drysdale, 

 who acted at both centres) reports that of the candidates who 

 presented themselves for examination at Reading nine failed 

 in paper work, the written answers being exceedingly faulty 

 and weak. Of the twenty-four who obtained pass-marks, nine 

 displayed conspicuous ability in the written answers and viva 

 voce examination. Many of the candidates were sadly lacking 

 in practical knowledge with regard to general dairying. It 

 was evident that several had not read carefully the whole of 

 the paper before beginning to write the answers, as, in many 

 cases, quite unnecessary details were given, which would 

 have been avoided if they had grasped the idea that the 

 paper was intended to be regarded as a consecutive whole, 

 dealing with the different branches of dairy farm manage- 

 ment, instead of treating each question as an entirely separate 

 one with no relationship to the others. In the practical work 

 of butter-making, though a number of candidates failed 

 to obtain pass-marks, the twenty who succeeded in doing so 

 performed their work very well indeed. 



, '-Of the twenty-nine candidates who obtained pass-marks in 

 paper work and the viva voce examination at the Scottish 

 centre at Kilmarnock, eleven were conspicuously capable and 

 stood out from the others just as the best at the English centre 

 did. With regard to the remaining eighteen who obtained 

 pass-marks, it was evident, in the course of the viva voce 



