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the object of gaining the diploma of Agriculturist, or Head 

 Brewer or a certificate of fitness in the duties of a Mana- 

 ger of a Dairy Farm. 



The result of the preliminary examinations is shown 

 by certificates granted to the students before their depar- 

 ture for the vacations. The final examination is held 

 before a special board, which includes some members who 

 are not attached to the establishment, and is presided 

 over by an examiner appointed by the Government. It 

 includes a written, an oral and a technical test. Each 

 student presents to the jury, a detailed report on some 

 subject chosen by himself, and a complete plan of a farm, 

 a brewery, or a dairy farm. 



The staff of instructors consists of 9 teachers; the stu- 

 dents, all living in the school, number about 5o. 



Results. Our intermediary schools have enabled our 

 agriculturists, small landowners and farmers, to obtain a 

 reasonable return from the working of their holdings ; they 

 have made them abandon routine, and capable and desirous 

 of utilising their acquirements; in a word, they have tho- 

 rougly trained our agriculturists to carry out that inten- 

 sive system of cultivation which alone can secure us the 

 advantage in the international struggle. 



Further, these establishments have contributed largely 

 to develop the spirit of association. Union between com- 

 rades has facilitated the formation of societies and syndi- 

 cates. The schools naturally develop into centres of con- 

 sultation and information, and their professors are 

 distinguished lecturers. 



But the greatest service rendered by these schools has 

 been in raising the agricultural profession to an inte- 

 resting art, and of infinitely varied applications, an art 

 which fascinates the learner and which he never desires 

 to abandon. The poet celebrates the happiness of labour 

 in fields ; the schools help us to realize the condition that 

 he attached to this happiness : 



O fortunatos nimium sun di bona norint Agricolas! 



