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Farm Institutes. 



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A large reconstructed building provides ideal accommodation 

 for all dairy work. Special attention will be given to clean milk 

 production (including bottling and marketing^! and soft cheese- 

 making. An area of nearly 4 acres is available for a horticultural 

 department, and the gardens, to which an apiary is attached, 

 comprise IJ acres. They provide scope for practical instruction 

 in market gardening, fruit culture, tomato growins?, and flori- 

 culture, and will be lun on commercial lines. In the spring of 

 this year a poultry department was started, and this is now being 

 extended. 



Courses of Instruction. — The main agricultural course is 

 arranged in three 12-week terms covering a complete farming 

 year, from October to August, and students are recommended to 

 attend for the whole year in order to become conversant with 

 the different aspects of farming practice. This course is designed 

 for young men who intend to become farmers, bailiffs, or estate 

 agents, and has for its aim the training of the eye and hand along 

 with the intelligence. 



A one-year course in dairying is run concurrently with the 

 foregoing for students wishing to take the British Dairy Farmers' 

 Association's certificates in butter and cheese-making. This 

 course also fulfils the regulations as to practical experience 

 required as a preliminary for the examinations for the National 

 Diploma in dairying. 



There are also short courses in agriculture, dairying, horticul- 

 ture, poultry-keeping, and bee-keeping. The 4-w^eeks course in 

 agriculture is for non-residential students, and is limited to young 

 men of 17 yearn or over who have had at least one year's 

 farming experience. Lectures are given daily during 3 weeks 

 in the winter, and one week in the summer is devoted to farm 

 demonstrations and visits to prominent farms and experiment 

 stations in the neighbourhood. 



Entrance scholarships are awarded annually as the result of 

 examination ; one agricultural scholarship will be awarded to a 

 student intending to continue his studies at an Agricultural 

 College, and one enabling the holder to take a degree course in 

 agriculture at Cambridge University. Certificates are awarded 

 to all students who reach a satisfactory standard in the 

 examination held at the end of the third term. 



Experiment and Research. — The Institute maintains direct 

 touch with the farmer and is equipped to carry out investigationr^ 

 of practical and commercial value. Examples of this type of 

 work at present being done are (a) an investigation into the 



