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vided in the class room. In the case of female students instruc- 

 tion will be confined to plain cooking and laundry, to the making 

 of the common varieties of cheese in the county, and the keeping 

 of poultry on either up-to-date farmyard principles or on the 

 colony system. Promising students who intend taking ex- 

 tended courses of instruction at universities or agricultural 

 colleges will be encouraged by scholarships to do so. Continuity 

 will in all cases be aimed at. Thus the Institute will work hand 

 in hand with the rural science schools and the rural evening 

 classes on the one hand, and the university or agricultural 

 colleges on the other. 



It i? expected that the Institute will be in full working order 

 bv the spring of 192 1. In the meantime the buildings and 

 gardens are being utiHsed as a training centre for ex-Service 

 men in horticulture and poultr^^-keeping. 



Inxreasing interest is being taken by farmers and commercial 

 fruit and vegetable growers in science as applied to cultivation. 

 Plant H iene ^^^^ estabUshed societies — content 



in the past with their practical knowledge of 

 crop cultivation — and newly formed societies — anxious to 

 base their operations on scientific lines — are asking for lecturers 

 who can demonstrate to them the advantages of the combina- 

 tion of theory and practice. The Ministry welcome such 

 requests, and are endeavouring to meet them as far as possible. 



In the middle of January a lecture was delivered in Norwich 

 by Mr. G. C. Gough, B.Sc, an Inspector of the Ministr\', on the 

 subject, " Plant Hygiene in relation to Crops." Mr. Gough 

 first pointed out that cleanliness is as important to plants as to 

 human beings, and gave instances of the large losses sustained 

 in this and other countries from the depredations of the pests 

 and diseases of plants and crops. 



With regard to measures of control, the lecturer considered the 

 subject imder the four headings : (i) exclusion, (2) protection, 

 (3) eradication, (4) immunisation. Under the first of these he 

 dealt >vith the necessity of suitable crop rotation, whereby the 

 succession on the same land of crops subject to the same pest 

 was avoided ; the advantages of reasonable separation when 

 planting patches of such crops as bush fruit, in view of the possi- 

 bihty of epidemic outbreaks of disease ; and the need for care 

 in the purchase of seed, bushes or fruit-tree stocks to avoid the 

 introduction of disease. ]\Ir. Gough emphasised the large extent 



