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5. Queensland. 

 Up to tlie present, no course in agriculture lias been establisted. 



6. United States. 

 In the United States considerable success bas attended the estab- 

 lishment of University courses in agriculture. In 1910, 3,060 students 

 were taking a four-years' course in agricultural science at the Uni-^-er- 

 sities, and no less than 707 graduated in the same year. The total num- 

 ber of graduates in all schools at the Universities of the United States in 

 1910 was 6.807. If Victoria had the same ratio of students in propor- 

 tion to population as the United States, there would be 44 students 

 taking the degree course in agriculture at the University, and there 

 would be ten graduates each year. 



7. Prussia. 

 In Prussia there are six institutions of University rank giving an 

 agricultural course, and at these the average annual number of students 

 since the foundation of this course till 1912 was 1,767. 



Summary. 



The success achieved in the University teaching of agriculture here 

 and elsewhere in respect to the number of students who have availed 

 themselves of the course obviously falls short of the standard obtaining 

 in such countries as America and Germany. It must, however, be borne 

 in mind that the number of students compares very favorably with the 

 attendances in the early years of other schools of Australian Univer- 

 sities. 



Such a comparison is made in the following table : — 



Thus it will be seen that at Sydney University the average number 

 of students attending the Agricultural School during the fir.st seven 

 years of its existence has been 9.9, as compared with an average attend- 

 ance of only 5.4 the first .seven years of their Engineering School. This 

 latter, in its nineteenth year, had a roll call of 99 students. 



The average attendance for the first seven years of the Agricultural 

 School of the Melbourne University has been 18.7 students, but, as illus- 



