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given in the byre, the other half they get in feeding outside 

 (tethered). 



The average produce amounts to 8700 lbs. of milk or 340 lbs. 

 of butter per cow. The pigs are sold when weighing about 

 190 lbs. 



4. The Dairy. — As the dairy is intended to serve as a 

 model, it contains more and larger machinery than is necessary 

 for the working of the milk produced on the farm. 



It is not likely that colleges of this type will be introduced into 

 Scotland, but the colleges now established in Edinburgh, Glasgow, 

 and Aberdeen are capable of development to suit the requirements 

 of agriculturists. If those who intend farming would realise the 

 importance of devoting, say at least two winters to the systematic 

 study of Agriculture and the allied sciences at a properly equipped 

 central institution, the number of colleges in Scotland would soon 

 require to be increased. It is to be hoped that the interest of the 

 agricultural community of Scotland in technical education applied 

 to their branch of industry may soon be as general as we have 

 found it in Denmark. 



The Dalum Field Demonstration Station 



Adjacent to the Dalum Agricultural School is situated one of 

 the Demonstration Stations of which there are four in the island 

 of Fyen alone, and others in Zeeland and other parts of Denmark. 

 These stations have been organised by and are under the control 

 of Agricultural Societies, and they are carried out under the 

 supervision of one of the travelling experts or advisers who are 

 specially employed for such duties. There is one such national 

 expert on live stock, another on plant diseases, another on crops 

 and plants, and so on. The Demonstration Stations in Fyen 

 are all supervised by the expert on crops and plants. The costs 

 are defrayed by the Agricultural Societies, which are assisted by 

 grants from Government given for these purposes. 



The Field Demonstration Stations differ from the ordinary 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations in that no attempt is made on 

 them at exact investigation, but they are used simply to show 

 plainly to the eyes of visitors facts relating to cropping already 

 known or anticipated. Thus on the Demonstration Station at 

 Dalum there were plots of oats on some of which had been sown 

 seeds of the runch (Raphanus raphanistrum), and the results gave 

 a very effective object lesson on the damage done to crops by 

 weeds. On other plots were shown in the cereal crops of 1904 

 the effects produced by various crops grown in the preceding year 

 on the same land, while on other plots were shown a number of 

 varieties of potatoes growing side by side under the same treat- 

 ment. These stations are visited once a year or oftener by 

 many farmers, and no doubt act as a very useful educational 

 influence. 



