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available. The scholarships awarded at such schools as Sexey's, 

 Shepton Grammar School, and the County School at Wellington 

 are enabling promising boys to continue their studies at agricultural 

 colleges or elsewhere, and the reports are most encouraging. A 

 growing work is that done through the post. The instructors are 

 constantly giving information and advice by letter. In dairying the 

 Committee owes much to the initiative and enterprise of the Bath 

 and West Society, which for many years carried on a Cheese School 

 in the county. At first the County Council contented itself with 

 making grants varying in amount from 250 to 300 a year. 

 Eventually, three years ago, the Agricultural Committee assumed 

 the management of the school. The school has been in favour 

 with agriculturists from its start and it has well deserved that 

 favour, for there is abundant evidence of its influence for good 

 on the quality of Cheddar cheese made in Somerset. The great 

 practical feature of the school is the production of cheese under 

 right conditions. The school is itinerant that is, it is carried on 

 at some suitable farm during the cheese-making season. During 

 the past three seasons, from special causes, the site has been Dud- 

 well Farm, Chewton Mendip, but ordinarily the locality is changed 

 yearly, so as to get the fullest advantage from the school. 



Agricultural Education Exhibition at the Gloucester Show 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society. (Journ. of the R. Agric. 

 Soc. of England, Vol. 70, 1909, pp. 239-244). 



Among the number of institutions devoted to either agricultural 

 teaching or research, or to both, which took advantage of the 

 Society's show of Gloucester the following deserve to ,be mentioned. 



The first exhibit in the catalogue was Lawes 1 Agricultural Trust 

 which presented a series of maps of extraordinary interest. These 

 maps showing how certain crops, different kinds of live-stock and 

 other agricultural matters may be found to be associated with dif- 

 ferent soil formations, made up an agricultural survey of the south- 

 eastern counties, without parallel in the history of British rural inve- 

 stigations. The authors of this work have set an example to all 

 those who seek for truth in the world's knowledge of agriculture. 



The Royal Agricultural Society of England had many interesting 

 items besides the collection of its publications. The Botanical depart- 

 ment showed many exhibits illustrating the latest developments in 

 the various problems under investigation. The Zoological dept. showed 



