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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EXAMINATION 



BOARD. 



I.— REPORT ON THE RESULTS 



OF THE FIFTEENTH EXAMINATION FOR THE 



NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN AGRICULTURE, 



Held at Leeds, April 17 to 24, 1914. 



1. The Fifteenth Examination for the National Diploma 

 IN Agriculture was, by the courtesy of the authorities, held 

 at the University of Leeds from the 17th to the 24th April 

 last. The subjects of Examination were Practical Agricul- 

 ture (two papers), Farm and Estate Engineering (including 

 (a) Surveying, (b) Farm Buildings, (c) Machinery and Imple- 

 ments), Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Botany, Agri- 

 cultural Book-keeping, Agricultural Zoology, and Veterinary 

 Science. Under the Regulations, the whole eight papers may 

 be taken at one time, or a group of any three or four in one 

 year and the remaining group of four or five in the year follow- 

 ing. Candidates taking the whole Examination in one year 

 who fail in not more than two subjects are allowed to take 

 those subjects alone in the succeeding year. Candidates failing 

 in a single subject of a group are permitted to take that subject 

 again in conjunction with the second group. 



2. One hundred and thirty-nine candidates presented 

 themselves on this occasion (as compared with 112 last year, 

 when the previous largest number was examined). Nine 

 candidates sat for all subjects, and 50, who had previously 

 passed a portion of the Examination, appeared for the remain- 

 ing subjects. Of these 50, two — -who had passed certain subjects 

 under the old Regulations — were permitted to come up for six 

 subjects, twelve took five subjects, including one subject in 

 which they failed in 1913, 29 took four subjects, and seven 

 sat for a single subject in which they were unsuccessful last 

 year. The other 80 candidates presented themselves for a 

 group of three or four subjects. 



3. As the result of the Examination, two of the nine candi- 

 dates taking all subjects, thirty of the forty-three taking a 

 group of subjects, and tliree of the seven taking a single subject 

 — making 85 in all — were successful in obtaining the Diploma, 

 two ivith Honowrs. 



