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of dispute. If a manure or a feeding-stuff is not up to the 

 quality guaranteed, the amount to be deducted from the 

 price is settled by the umpire. These analytical stations are 

 evidently of great value to the agriculturists of the country. 



Seed Control Station. — The Seed Control Station is 

 situated at Wageningen, and the staff consists of a Director 

 and a principal assistant, with sixteen workers in the labora- 

 tories, who are mostly women. 



From 2,000 to 3,000 samples of seeds are tested annually, 

 these being mostly grass and clover seeds. Probably about 

 one-third of these seeds sown in the country are tested. 

 Cereal and other seeds are also reported on, but not to a large 

 extent. 



In the reports on samples of seeds, the percentage of 

 impurities and of weed seeds is given by weight, and the 

 germinating percentage is given of the number of pure seeds, 

 and not of the total sample. 



Dairy Education. — There is a dairy school at Bolsward, 

 to the north of the Zuyder Zee. As already stated, the 

 Province of Guelderland has a dairy expert, who advises 

 farmers on all questions in dairying. He also tests samples 

 of milk, and does other similar work. Work of this nature 

 is also carried out in the other provinces where dairying is 

 important. 



The State Higher Agricultural, Horticultural, and 

 Forestry School at Wageningen. — This is the higher 

 agricultural college of the Netherlands, and, although of 

 University rank, is not a University, nor is it connected with 

 any University. 



While the pupils who attend the Winter Agricultural 

 Schools are nearly all the sons of farmers who have 

 already had considerable experience in farm work, those 

 entering Wageningen are nearly all the sons of professional 

 men, merchants, land owners, and of the very limited class 

 of large farmers, and are therefore of a distinctly different 

 type from those attending the winter schools. The total 

 number of students at Wageningen last session was from 150 

 to 160. The lecture hours are from 8 to 12 noon, and from 

 2 to 4 p.m. The full course covers three sessions, and 

 diplomas are given in the six following branches : — 



(1) Agriculture of the Netherlands; (2) Agriculture of the 



