538 KEPOBT— 1880. 



3. Relation of Landed Proprietors to Agricultural Education, 



Tlie proprietors of the land ought to be most interested in its development, and 

 decidedly are to blame for not taking that lead which their social ppsition and 

 territorial influence entitle them to, in initiating every movement having for its 

 object the development of the soil-produce as well as the intelligence of their 

 tenantry. Had they done so the position of scientific agriculture would be a very 

 diflPerent one. 



Pakt II. 



The facilities for acquiring a knowledge of Scientific Agriculture in this country, 



and on the Continent. 



1. England: — 



[a). The Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



(h). The Science and Art Department, which encourages agricultural education 



in its usual way by payment on results and by summer courses of lectures 



to teachers, 

 (c). The Wilts and Hants Agricultural College, Downton. 

 This institution, recently established by Professor Wrighton, late of the Eoyal 

 Agricultural College, to supply to the southern counties education similar to that 

 at Cirencester. 



{d). The Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry, 52 Lime Street, London, where 



a course of lectures -with laboratory practice is given in connection with 



agriculture, commencing in October annually. 



2. Scotland : — 



(a). The Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, subsidized and 

 supported by the Government and the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland. 



(6). The North of Scotland School of Chemistry and Agriculture, Aberdeen, 

 originally established in connection witli the Science and Art Department, 

 but now developing into an independent institution which grants diplomas of 

 its own. 



3. Ireland: — 



The Albert Institution, Glasne%'in, Dublin, and several other uistitutions of 

 a kindred nature, besides about 240 institutions of less importance. 



Institutions which encourage Agricultural Education hy Subsidies and Prizes. 



1. England: — 



(«). The Royal Agricultural Society's Examinations and Scholarships. 

 This Institution encourages agricultural education by four money prizes of 25/., 

 16/., 10/., and 5/., and ten scholarships of 20/., tenable for one year. 

 (h). The Society of Arts, by means of examinations and prizes. 



2. Scotland: — 



Higliland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 



Like its English neighbour, this Society supports agricultural education by 

 granting 150/. per annum to the Chair of Agriculture in Edinburgh University, 10/. 

 in prizes to the class, as well as granting ten bursaries of 20/. each, and five of 10/. 

 each. 



3. Ireland: — 



The Eoyal Irish Agricultural Society. 



As the lines upon which this society works are much the same as the English 

 and Scotch National Societies, I need not give any special account of its work. 



