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There is further a short course provided for farmers who 

 cannot attend the regular school course. This term opens on 

 the ioth of January and lasts six weeks. The first tw r o weeks 

 are devoted to judging grain, soils, and live stock. This is 

 followed by a four- weeks' course of lectures covering the more 

 important branches of agriculture, horticulture, stock breeding, 

 farm botany, farm chemistry, entomology, poultry, dairying, 

 &c. For the entire course a fee of £2 is charged. 



There is a special dairy school attached to the Agricultural 

 School with a staff of 17 instructors and assistants. 

 This is designed to furnish persons actually engaged in making 

 butter and cheese with an opportunity to become more skilled 

 in their work and also to study problems directly bearing on 

 dairying industry. 



Instruction is divided into the following seven courses and 

 opens on the 18th of November, extending over four weeks : 



(1) Lectures covering the entire field of dairying industry; 



(2) practical work daily in the butter room ; (3) practical work 

 daily in the cheese room ; (4) practical work in the laboratory, 

 examining milk, making daily composite tests, and pasteurisa- 

 tion ; (5) practical engineering, steam fitting and plumbing ; 

 (6) practical work in bookkeeping ; (7) practical work with 

 cultures and starters. 



Wisconsin County Agricultural Schools. 



One of the most interesting experiments in secondary agri- 

 cultural education has been the establishment of county schools 

 in Wisconsin, started under the Agricultural School Law of 

 Wisconsin of 1881. The following is a summary of this law as 

 amended in 1893 : — 



Sections 1, 2 and 3 provided for the creation of schools of 

 this class and for County School Boards of three members. 

 Section 4 allows two or more counties to unite for the purpose 

 of establishing one school. Section 5 makes the County 

 Treasurer, the School Treasurer. Section 6 defines the branches 

 of instruction to be given. Section 7 requires a plot of three or 

 more acres for farm purposes. Section 8 makes the school 

 free to students of any county which helps to support it. Sec- 

 tion 9 makes the State Superintendent of Education also Super- 

 intendent of such schools. Section 10 provides for list of 



