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Farm Institutes. 



[Aug., 



are explained to the students. In this way the student is able 

 to appreciate the value of different methods adopted for dealing 

 with various problems. 



Courses oi Instruction. — Four courses, each of 10 weeks' 

 duration, are arranged at the Institute during the year — two for 

 men and two for women. An examination is held at the 

 end of each course on the result of which certificates are 

 awarded to those who reach the required standard. In the 

 autumn course for men, instruction is given in agriculture, 

 agricultural chemistry and botany, veterinary hygiene, land 

 surveying, book-keeping, horticulture and dairying, and a more 

 advanced continuation course is arranged in the winter for 

 students who are able to remain at the Institute for the longer 

 period, some of whom may desire to proceed to a University 

 College. 



A course in dairying, horticulture and poultry keeping is held 

 in the spring for farmers' daughters and other women inter- 

 ested in rural industries, while a continuation course in the 

 same subjects is conducted in the summer to meet the needs of 

 women students who desire to secure posts as dairymaids or 

 cheese-makers at factories, or who may wish to enter a Univer- 

 sity College in order to qualify for the National Diploma in 

 Dairying. 



The Education Committee offer a limited number of scholar- 

 ships to residents in the county who wish to attend courses at 

 the Institute, and, on completing their course at the Institute, 

 students from the county may compete for scholarships tenable 

 at Bangor College. It is therefore possible for a student to 

 proceed from the Institute to the University and take a degree 

 course. 



It should be borne in mind, however, that the instruction 

 provided at the Institute is designed primarily to enable the 

 young men to make a living by farming. Too much emphasis 

 cannot be laid on the practical side of the work conducted at 

 the Institute. The various operations on the farm afford an 

 opportunity for impressing upon students the importance of 

 applying science to practice. 



The belief so prevalent in the rural districts of Wale? not 

 long ago that education was a luxury in the case of the culti- 

 vator of the soil no longer exists, and the establishment of 

 Institutions such as the one at Llysfasi shows that the agricul- 

 tural community realises the advantage of a training at a 

 Farm Institute for equipping a young man for life on a farm. 



