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The Boards of Agriculture 



Scotland has its own Board of Agriculture which 

 was established in 1911. It has a chairman and two 

 commissioners, and does similar work to that of the 

 English Board. It is specially concerned with agri- 

 culture, forestry, and other rural industries of Scotland, 

 and collects and prepares statistics and information on 

 these subjects. Besides making enquiries, experiments, 

 and researches, it promotes agricultural co-operation 

 and organisation. 



The Agricultural college, Cirencester 



Ireland has a Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Education which dates from 1899. It is 

 controlled by a president, vice-president, and fourteen 

 members, and works on similar lines to the English and 

 Scottish Boards. Among its special points are the 

 encouragement of poultry breeding, and development 

 of schemes of instruction in horticulture, bee-keeping, 

 butter-making, etc. The improvement of Irish agri- 



