rae a nem. 
. how, chemistry and botany wi ere taught; 
Jezy 16, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 685 
extension ofsuch instruction in these schools, that instruction | was alt together a correct report of what had already been done 
nes om pra i come, out imtis last would be given. igneis was a third point to iar no dope to measure it by the 8l. appearing in Ko report as expended 
line. E calcu ating tis — has no bearing on the was made in the report, but which he thought deserviug o E in that direction. Certainly, as yet, there had not been many 
theory the total v f the manure per acre, but | the consideration of the committee. n a Unive er: young men presenting themselves to the Society for examina- 
Ped; me how al: a proportion of nitrogen is|of Edinburgh there was a chair, the only chair E Boot tion by i — aes, ood y more, how- 
1 "a ssly for the teaching of agricultural | ever, ha emselv r n A 
"n ted EA considerable expense) I have taken the em hey. Mn «nd ` at th x ee o at | obtained a diploma, for he believed they had been pretty rigid 
total n itr o in the m monum (excluding the s sheep- ir was miser: =, small, and "^ a attendai in awarding v: ae e: u hought that had been 
~~ » t it was likewise wretc Now, he thoug ht it useful in guidin the branches of study to 
with cart- -dung, and have “supposed that the dressing | desirable that mean should = ea by me. m ghland d Bociety, | w p m tg “be well ‘eel “that they ON : T— = 
Mo ben s 
has : amounted to 20 loads per acre. of these 20 loads, i in their power hat di pn P pu io iin e Lor to reti dnm before its fuimos could be fully felt; and he 
12 tbe most diligent of the students who might attend, prizes of | did not think it was fair to say that this was a failure because, 
201. to 301., on ascertaining that these students came up to the | as yet, a homeelves for small Min. of young men had 
standard of a remp y knowledge which the Council of the | presented themselves for — io: 
eret E maneria matter exists is incorporated Town d Society Lig ene He Eire that in the eig Hr ene 
ably a t on icu ti. 
ae -— there. was a been cum see Xue EE ee no | in the subject of agricultural education, and he "ew no 
bett wher m the peculia: 
but I sae rbv if any fai fees pea p= taken. "Thorn alao prizes might be offered to the | hesitation in saying that good effects is 
cheapest market d rins p es studente, and perhaps an addition mado to the lecturer's salary, the mooting of the question at present. Like Mr. 
‘sat price, even | which would be an encouragement to men of talent to cake the ae th alts of 
hen his team ted. sees e bs fes class efficient. It appeared to him Wilson, he was very far from considering the res 
i hich | the AM, scheme of the Society as indicating a 
was | fj 
also worth mecha that the manure applied by | that ther sufficient surplus of the Soc 
ould enable shen at an rà to make a Aere A P He 'ailur 
5001 JH 6001, por 700 Ad re m2 Ar Aea e advantages "Of The ber of candidates who bad pr Mercer which had 
ear; the 1 remainder of the unexhausted du ung agricultural education Phong the country in the Univer- it omne and eho larget € miens 
rved in the la nd, and produci g its full | sities, MN. A and Pere schools. That|9 J hat the Society bad 
It i 
No. i. h though i sufficient for a far greater crop o of Wheat a 
tity 
they will bear us out in agric mired Redlegs: | virtue of its original charter it | diplom 
conclusions as solel i held an educational charter, | the non wá n pA phi eiim neg point 
-y That the pec and va Ine of 1 manures left in the zd CUP tut oat SUELE Be saben. as| They must bear in mind that the idea of an posed 
yard or in the land can be ascertained and practically | w e = pe eet society, having gone to the Crown for 
estimated. the xpre of obtaining the high prerogative of en. 
2d. That cl raging agricultural oon an Scotland. And therefore 
os linde 5». nes d good cultivation are more is said that a parl s power, influence, and pecuniary of Edinburgh gra: degrees of M. Acn Yr rin 
a agricultural pot of corn than the | resources ought to ri Md shite in promoting the objects | of gentlemen w Ms received d | degrees pect m y to 16 or 17, 
usual application of dung. Of pae educational charter as much as the objects of the agri- ks eing = Se i ME » "x ye ote RIP SIS d d ord the valud of 
f in th f at ee o 
at supposing the land to be clean d eode bee eren d gn 3 prepa 2 which was ege of MED, wa they would see e reason to con ege 
mall as to be Aaea 
3 an 
: e bo riesce sum of $i, as whole tha! end 
ottgta dagg: ge gers half-a-crown spent in manure un educational charter, de said bet Society aia not | he thought, that the number of gentle 
produce extra bushel of corn, worth 5s. at eres n de "had was required in that s char! qn. forward 1 for their diploma was not s0 s 
present price, without. materially increasing the other | stead of 8/., it should expend $00. o cours me ve "afr Ho. d dM 
er of t tie pred expect it to expend that sum at EET ; but to expand. tbe Fento: qo was not at all satisfied 
n ry sum of 8/. was 2 worth, n the Society nor ful- i the’ he rin of Mr. Milne Home's motion. He 
: nts o! 
sid ed the "| Should protest adsit that Society being turned into a 
Wheat, ah A more than if it had borne a corn | Question, but the ek Pacte read | had TE oe into iad temo — He ves that 
, : sing Aon 
£o» 208 WEB t le Um een as arising between t pem the report as a harbinger and nd pledge that the hool 
that I proposed in my first letter ould not lose sight of this opted question but schools was the bistisis of the State did dit of that 
to mop (page 515), and to to these I have directed ey cooky St forward, and that a report s e od m brought iety. 
attention; and the answers as deduced from ae ras pong Vti WI VO IS CLE AE OM e : e He should like to see a thorough national syste qum 
[xen : m; o 
eme and M, Reiset’s cdit above referred to seem | this agricultural education should be committee, propose ton at on re 4 sabes pne iunio i vut Ho did not soo that thero zs 
o correspond with the results of farm practice. This extent É they mi ght draw upon the funds of the Society to carry | any great want of funds in Scotland. Mr. Milne e had 
correspondence of theory with practice is the great test | °! this objec iiedast to the Church Uf Botna. "Thal wan teerely the 
of the truth. and correctness of either, and I P Mr. UU. f Pum passion. said he had great | church of one-third part of the people of Scotland, but he for 
thus to fortify my ideas in a future letter, when Li pesas in sarta Mr. e Home's motion. He M d m should like a national system of education for the 
we e to consider the rn of the md ee P ost heartily, because py thought the directors 
mentioned —that one-half nitro, | had n ve en a ste an - right di y 
: n es to enrich the dung, oe one- sixth this oat they had given the Society a pledge that 
o fatten the gro ea s the question, they would Hw dej this matter. and would not 
es dun i y bas 
Mr. MILLER, of Leithen, agreed to the first part of 
the motion. If Mr. Milne Home — — the funds of 
the Society were to be applied in the manner indica 
in his speech, by paying parish schoolmasters — by 
d Pr 
paying perhaps Free and United Pres byterian school- 
masters—and introducing science the education of 
6d. per lb. itrogen io conseque iti Mr. MT Edi M: y. 
can, that an extra 5s. worth of co * en Diei PE s ‘or | proper the SER E EA "i iva ‘ae 
half fa-crown—in other words, dE it pays to main. | fathering of the professional gr Hon a usn farmers 
in a hi igh condition in land. J. B. M. be country ; bat he looked t dislike 
ndeni an any WY pone posal that t this. Sedet oa inter- 
ere wi ucation of th rochial other 
fh Kin ia am eee : TES bi was ont of zn : ls of the ae He thought that 
ri of the discussion wi h was ou s eir — isan 
took place 
taral Soc eit. mm subject before the Highland and Agri Whatever e dire 
ne “ That this m ^, recognisin 
eM the interim report now presented by them 
nsideration of the questions raised in the report till the Ana] | education 
pee resented as promised by the directors." ^ ben 
He sai d that he had pro ak this motion with oe 
snd of 1 not we mitting the Society to certain opini i 
expressed in 
e e 
In peia bea 
point in that report, and likewise of t Aen Alei 
im an "important om Am gi e thought it |; 
omnes ae Y co points under the attention af 
> meeting, for the purpose of justifying the motio 
which he s MIA 1o the e meeti med —À 
as an amendment to Mr. Milne 
hat was exceedingly good, e 
ad upon this. subject the bette 
tely met with p eire that 
ouraged certai 
1edia Mr. WirsoN seconded the amendment, 
a aie — 
was said in the report that the committee could notat | braochos ot el Mr. MILNE Home gr that every one in the room 
Present recommend the encouragement of the teaching of conamercial questions These 1 si tution y vn tcp = "e e increase the means of 
ure in elementary schools ; and there was no reference undertakings, i eh 
Now, with regard to t t point, he knew there we: 
re con- | difficult and delicat 
siderable di nces of opinion as the expe cy of fequie t xara 
‘A cultural instruction in the elementary sch 
t the same time, he was aware that some of the di ors of | thought, ier Bre there wai tion— 
the Society were of opinion that such instruction if it w f | Societ: * 
a simple qud practical character, might be encouraged without ENT me 1 S la be dirty tte Highland Society. th 
detriment Gas eels and with very great advantage to | w ae Pe kamia stated in more than it has hitherto eff acted for that € t object: 
E children Cumt : 2 MILLER then withdrew 
of the Soci e VETTER a reluctance on the part | e ] 
rural classes, whose nded them. He had M 
E P of oS NET 
interest in this question, end Rm County, ote 
ngly 
propriety of agricultural ction of a simple| were, as they all 
an old member of this Be. A nob likewise|to the agri 
‘Bee more tly t ny whom he would to 
for Rom rcd general meetings than he frega. m students ati ANS they 5 
view of encouraging agvicel ocated the same f | mi only so much of it as becomes actually 
fchools. With these testimonies before thon, De tne ES in E growing frame, but aa ee 
e 
[o 
Socie re on; tt'was à pity | M sn get Aue cum 
that t em, it was a pit; r. 
~ ty; by approving of this an un malihed institutions in Seotlend for teaching those subjects bead a much as is expired and wasted into t 
manner, should i 
schools. H. paust such instruction in these , farmer h Now, in the case tu 
10 years epu to the fact that some eight or | of sending his son r t educa- | ani E ky eo growth is little more than 
The matter w. ght e in these very schools. | tion, to the scien erii nag where | fatt and in the case of the adult animal 
they not only approved of d Society, when | they might obtain - very effective education indeed. ening process ; — 
gave prizes to the best. students eyes ction being given, but | Somethi hing eir Mn v Sootland in the way | —1man-—or at least in “the case of any considerable 
E regardin tho these schools. Passing to | of showin o bearings of sci nee on the | number of "p growth may be 
made of the rectors and trust g Ex cp. —- aa ad art » LEON eed T p E: present, h othing In s a ease, therefore, manure i ly 
t a " 
Bene country- vas ie Rnd, cademies enh x Pi yw ion: 8 as is wasted from the lungs and 
e answ But looking on manure as the 
d at t find, m stat vas of quiry. ‘But he 
Of aanry Dat most of those schools were attended teins oes | Of ie. rashly i 
years of oh In many ‘ct them, even | Society upon agricu ultura fro 
it and he felt certain 
^ the Highland Society declared itself favourable to the! any steps of that kind coo Mxet; and he did not think it | with which the farmer peat i. The air itself 
