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JOHN PRINCE SHELDON. Dairy Schools in the United Kingdom. 



(Standard Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture, edited by R. Patrick 

 Wright. Vol. IV, p. 109. London, 1909). 



" Tuitional establishments, at once technical and scientific in scope 

 and practice, are highly important characteristics of the new era in 

 dairying which unfolded itself in the last quarter of the century 

 recently closed. A generation ago they were not yet in being were 

 only just beginning to be thought of. But they are prominent 

 features in the dairy world of to-day in the British Islands. Their 

 existence is owing to the sharp awakening which occurred in the 

 early seventies from a careless slumber of centuries duration in 

 British dairying, and that awakening in turn was the sequel of the 

 rapidly developing foreign competition of the period in dairy 

 products, most of all in cheese. 



Ireland was early in the field with dairy schools well-nigh thirty 

 years ago almost literally in the field, inasmuch as the first schools 

 were itinerant, especially in the southern shires of the Emerald Isle." 



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 The following is a list of the chief dairy schools in England: 



Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, Kingston, Derby; British 

 Dairy Institute, Reading ; Lancashire County Council Dairy School, 

 Hutton, Preston ; Essex County Council Dairy School, Chelmsford ; 

 Cheshire County Council Dairy School, Worleston ; Yorkshire Dairy 

 School, Garforth, Leeds ; Eastern Counties' Dairy School, Ipswich ; 

 Cumberland and Westmorland Dairy School, Newton Rigg ; Shrop- 

 shire Dairy School, Harper- Adams College, Newport; Warwickshire 

 County Council Dairy School, Griff House, Nuneaton. 



In Scotland : West of Scotland College Dairy School, Kilmarnock. 



In Wales: tleweni Dairy School, Aberystwith Dairy School. 



In Ireland: Glasnevin Dairy School, Munster Dairy School. 







British School of Sugar Refinery in Glasgow. (La Sucrerie 

 indigene et coloniale, n. 23, June yth, 1910, p. 541), 



A circular issued by the West Indian Commission announces 

 the foundation of a Sugar Refinery School in Glasgow, Scotland, as 

 an annex to the Technical College, for the training of chemists and 

 engineers for cane sugar refineries. 



