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Twenty-three Agronomic stations, $17,000 00 



Agricultural shows, 190,000 00 



Fat-cattle shows, 40,000 00 



Regional shows, 150,000 00 



A total of $707,660 00 



But in addition to this are the special schools, all supported 

 liberally, — as those of forestry, for example, at an annual ex- 

 pense of $43,000, or the three great veterinary academies at 

 $87,760. In brief, if we should add to the sums appropri- 

 ated by the general government, the help given by the 

 departments, we should find the yearly amount expended in 

 agricultural education to be considerably over a million 

 dollars. 



In Great Britain, agricultural education maybe considered 

 under the three heads of government aid, private enterprise and 

 the agricultural societies. Government aid is very unevenly 

 distriliuted. In England it is confined to the maintenance 

 of a chair of agriculture at the Normal School of South 

 Kensington, and to the payment to the masters of four shil- 

 lings for every pupil passing in certain specified subjects ; 

 in Scotland, to the payment of $750 a year for the support 

 of a chair of agriculture at the University of Edinburgh ; 

 while in Ireland it has established an institute for the train- 

 ing up of schoolmasters, and has organized and put in oper- 

 ation over a hundred schools in which as^riculture is tausfht, 

 besides some twenty model farm schools. Where, however, 

 government aid seems to be deficient or withheld, there pub- 

 lic societies and private enterprise have not been wanting to 

 forward agricultural education. That there is a distinct call 

 for education of this kind is evidenced by the numerous 

 advertisements of private schools in which agricultural in- 

 struction is made the chief feature. The Albert Institute at 

 Glasnevin furnishes the higher education in Ireland, and to 

 it are brought yearly, at the expense of the government, the 

 schoolmasters of the lower schools, fifty at a time, for a six 

 weeks' course. A novel feature of agricultural education in 

 Ireland is the " Travelling Educational Dairy," owned by the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, and let out by them 

 at the rate of $35 per week and expenses. It consists of a 



