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Faem Institutes. 



[Sept. 



of corn, straw and bay in stacks, and roots in clamps. Occa- 

 sional visits are made to Bury St. Edmunds Auction Mart for 

 the study of live stock, and to farms having special features of 

 interest. 



The course of instruction includes agriculture ; agricultural 

 science ; land measuring and mensuration ; farm accounts ; 

 veterinary hygiene; farm implements and machinery; joinery 

 and carpentry work; smith's work; horse shoeing; dairying, in- 

 cluding production of clean milk ; poultry keeping, bee- 

 keeping, etc. Practical instruction is given in horticulture, 

 marketing, butter making and milk testing, as well as demon- 

 strations in cheese making, poultry trussing, etc. In the more 

 advanced stages, the practical work includes feeding stock and 

 compounding rations, and examining and identifying food stuffs, 

 artificial manures, grass, clover, cereals and their seeds. 



Two summer courses for female students in dairy work and 

 poultry keeping are held, commencing in x\pril and June 

 respectively and lasting for nine weeks. Practical instruction is 

 given in milking, separating, milk testing, butter making, and 

 the making of hard cheese and cream cheese. Lectures and 

 practical instruction in poultry keeping are also given, the course 

 being specially suitable for farmers' daughters and others who 

 propose to take up this branch of work. 



THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL FARM IN- 

 STITUTE.— From 1900 to 1914 the Hampshire County Coun- 

 cil Farm School was established at Old Basing, near 

 Basingstoke, but towards the end of this period, owing to the 

 increasing demand for agricultural education it was removed to 

 its present position at Sparsholt. The Institute is situated on 

 high ground four miles north-west of Winchester, and is there- 

 fore central, both for the County, and for the Headquarters of 

 the County Council. The Principal is Mr. L. G. Troup, B.Sc. 

 (Agric). Thirty residential students can be accommodated. 

 Betvveen 50 and 60 students have attended the Farm Institute 

 annually during the past few years. 



The Farm consists of 250 acres of land overlying chalk, and 

 is typical of much of the land in Hampshire; roughly half of 

 the land is arable. A herd of about 30 dairy Shorthorn cows 

 is maintained by the rearing of young stock, and is being 

 graded up by the use of good bulls. Clean milk production is 

 practised, and the tuberculin test has been carried out. A 



