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Agricultural Education. 



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Special Instruction in Poultry-keeping. — The headquarters of 

 instruction in this branch of farming may be said to be at 

 Reading. A college poultry farm is maintained for purposes 

 of practical training, and a certificate in aviculture is awarded 

 after one year's study at the College, three months' practical 

 training in poultry-keeping, and the passing of the prescribed 

 examinations. Short courses are also held. 



A special course in poultry-keeping is also given at Uckfield 

 College and certificates are awarded to successful students. 



Poultry-keeping, however, is a subject to which considerable 

 attention is now given at a number of the colleges and 

 schools. 



Special Instructi.on in Forestry. — There are two centres re- 

 ceiving aid from the Board where definite instruction in forestry- 

 is given, viz., at Bangor and Newcastle-on-Tyne, and oppor- 

 tunities for instruction are also available in other directions. 

 At Bangor a certificate in forestry is awarded to qualified 

 students, the course covering one year. 



The Senate of Cambridge University has approved of a pro- 

 posal for granting a diploma in forestry, and arrangements for 

 carrying this into effect are now in progress. 



Instruction in forestry is now provided by H.M. Commis- 

 sioners of Woods at the Alice Holt Woods in Hampshire and 

 at the Forest of Dean. The University of Oxford, has also 

 taken up the subject of forestry instruction in connection with 

 the scheme for training probationers for the Indian Forest 

 Service at Oxford, and a diploma in forestry will be granted to 

 members of the University who have pursued an approved course 

 of study, and who, after undergoing a course of practical work, 

 have satisfied the examiners in the prescribed examinations. 



The foregoing brief summary of the educational facilities 

 which are now available for the present generation of agricul- 

 turists in England and Wales in the colleges and institutions 

 aided by the Board, refers to what may be termed their 

 "internal" work, and does not take into account the work 

 carried on in the various counties with which they are con- 

 nected by means of lectures, travelling dairy and farriery 

 schools, and demonstration plots, nor of the similar work done 

 .directly by County Councils. 



