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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. — Grants for Agricultural 

 Education and Research^ 1902- 1903. [£#.1701.] Price gd. 



The Board have continued to the older and larger agricul- 

 tural institutions the financial support of the previous year. In 

 addition to such assistance the Board — as a result of frequent 

 inspection and careful deliberation — have felt justified in 

 supporting by a grant five institutions of a type somewhat 

 different from those already aided, namely, the Harper- Adams 

 Agricultural College, the Cheshire Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural School at Holmes Chapel, the East Sussex Agricul- 

 tural College at Uckfield, the Harris Institute at Preston, and 

 the Cumberland-Westmorland Farm School. The first of 

 these institutions, though more limited in its aims than a 

 university college, has succeeded in securing the position of an 

 educational centre for the agricultural work of a small group of 

 contiguous counties. The next three, serving, as they at 

 present do, single areas of county council administration, are 

 more purely local in character ; while the last, though associated 

 with two counties, restricts itself to performing the more 

 limited, though highly important, functions of a farm school. 

 All possess, or have direct access to, farms, and have for their main 

 object the supply of instruction specially suited to the wants of 

 prospective farmers, an object with which the Board are in 

 heartiest sympathy. As a result of this extension of the Board's 

 financial support their grants have been -increased by £950, and 

 now amount to ^8,900. 



Special grants for experiment and research, amounting to 

 £864, were also made, the aggregate of the grants made by the 

 Board thus being £9,764, as compared with £8,768 in 190 1-2. 



In the course of the Report it is suggested that in many parts 



