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but it is organized on a more advanced basis 

 than the farm, deals theoretically with every 

 branch of land industry, and practically with 

 most. It is a kind of agricultural university. 

 New South Wales, for example, supports Hawkes- 

 bury Agricultural College and Experimental 

 Farm, and thirteen other farms, which are 

 arranged to test the conditions of the various 

 climates to be encountered within the State ; to 

 carry on under practical conditions all the 

 existing industries of the land ; and to test new 

 industries and acclimatizations. 



A New South Wales lad who is destined for 

 any kind of agricultural career — fruit farming, 

 dairy farming, sugar growing, sheep or cattle 

 raising, grain growing — may go to the farm of 

 his particular industry, and afterwards finish 

 off at Hawkesbury College ; or he may take a 

 general agricultural course and specialize after- 

 wards. The course of instruction comprises the 

 principles of agriculture ; the breeding, rearing, 

 feeding, and management of live stock ; agri- 

 cultural chemistry, botany, vegetable pathology, 

 and entomology ; veterinary science and prac- 

 tice ; bacteriology ; meteorology ; agricultural 



