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The School of Agriculture. 



[July, 



The School is recognised by the Ministry of Agriculture as the 

 central institution for education and research in the eastern 

 counties, and in this capacity it has received since 1912 an annual 

 grant from the Ministry for the maintenance of an Advisory 

 Department. The staff of this Department includes Mr. F. R. 

 Petherbridge as biologist, Mr. W. S. Mansfield as agricultural 

 chemist and Mr. Codling as analyst. Mr. Petherbridge and Mr. 

 Mansfield spend a large proportion of their time in the country 

 giving advice to farmers on all kinds of agricultural problems, 

 usually through the county organisers. 



The School of Agriculture at present has no endowment for 

 agricultural scholarships or studentships. Among its pupils, 

 however, are many holders of scholarships or studentships of one 

 or other of the Cambridge Colleges which devote part of their 

 endowments to the encouragement of all branches of learning, 

 including the sciences allied to agriculture. The School is also 

 one of the Institutions at which the research scholarships and 

 training scholarships of the Ministry and the agricultural scholar- 

 ships of the County Councils are tenable. Holders of scholarships 

 of the various categories mentioned above have been among the 

 best students attending the School and the present staff has been 

 largely recruited from them. 



The School in its degree courses aims at providing a 

 liberal education for men who wish to spend their lives 

 on the land in any capacity. Its Diploma courses are 

 designed to go further and to give technical instruction of pro- 

 fessional standard to post graduates who wish to practice as 

 experts in some branch of agriculture, forestry, horticulture or 

 the allied sciences. 



The internal affairs of the School are managed by the Special 

 Board for Agriculture and Forestry which is practically the 

 Executive Committee of a larger body — the Board of Agricul- 

 tural Studies. This latter body comprises University and County 

 Council members and acts as a permanent agricultural confer- 

 ence for East Anglia. 



