1906.] Grants for Agricultural Education. 625: 



The educational side of the work of the Board of Agriculture- 

 is dealt with in Dr. Somerville's Report on the Distribution of 

 Grants for Agricultural Education and 



Distribution of Research in 1 904-1 905. The grants in aid 

 Gpants for 



Agricultural of local educational institutions in England 1 

 Education. and Wales amounted to ;£ 10,200, while 

 there were in addition special grants for 

 experiment and research to the sum of ,£425. The first-named 

 sum was apportioned among seventeen separate collegiate and 

 similar institutions for promoting the work of agricultural 

 instruction, and for the maintenance of the farms attached to 

 eight of them; it also included two grants of ^250 each to' 

 enable lectureships in forestry to be established at the Uni- 

 versity College of North Wales, Bangor, and at the Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The results which have attended 

 the establishment of these two lectureships are most encourag- 

 ing". A considerable number of students have been found 

 desirous of taking a full collegiate course of study, good classes 

 of practical foresters and others have been conducted at selected 

 local centres, while the demand on the part of landowners for 

 expert advice from the lecturers has been considerably in excess- 

 of what might reasonably have been anticipated. 



The special grants for experiment and research included £275: 

 for experiments on the improvements of pastures conducted 

 by Cambridge University, the Bath and West and Southern* 

 Counties Society, the Highland and Agricultural Society, and 

 the West of Scotland Agricultural College ; ,£100 for experi- 

 mental work conducted by the Aberdeen Agricultural Research 

 Association, and a contribution of ,£50 towards the expenses of 

 the Home-Grown Wheat Committee in connection with the 

 improvement of wheat. 



It is pointed out in the Report that the main intention of the 

 Board in granting financial assistance to educational institutions 

 was the provision and maintenance of facilities for enabling the 

 rising generation of agriculturists to obtain a thorough training 

 in the science of their business. Concurrently with this object 

 the Board had also in view the provision of opportunities for 

 enabling farmers to obtain advice on technical matters affecting 

 their calling. Primarily, therefore, the colleges and schools which 



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