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and in the manipulation and caring of bees; (3) instruction in 

 poultry-keeping breeds, their suitability for different purposes 

 and different localities; housing, feeding, and management; 

 hatching and rearing of chickens ; fattening, killing, plucking, 

 trussing, and preparation for market : (4) instruction in domestic 

 work, embracing plain cookery, plain needlework, and laundry 

 work. 



Students who attain the required standard of proficiency at 

 the examination at the conclusion of the first session are admitted 

 to a second session, and those who are proposing to be itinerant 



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instructors are admitted to a third session if .they pass the second 

 terminal examination. In the same way, if they pass the third 

 examination at the end of the third session, satisfactorily, they 

 are admitted to a fourth session. Attendance during six 

 sessions qualifies students for admission to the examinations 

 for instructorships. 



There are, a number of free places and half-free places awarded 

 to students who display special merit at the first terminal examina- 

 tion. This enables a clever student to take a second session 

 entirely or partially free of expense. Similar opportunities are 

 offered to successful students at the end of the second session. 



3. Royal College of Science, Dublin 



There was another educational institution in existence at the 

 time the Department was created. It was the Koyal College 

 of Science, Dublin. A Chair of Agriculture was instituted, and 



