igi 2.] Occupations of Agricultural Students. 849 



of those pupils who left during the past three years, and the 

 occupation which the pupils themselves now follow. A 

 summary of the returns is given below. The institutions 

 have been arranged in three groups : (1) Agricultural 

 Colleges situated on or near their own farms and providing 

 residential accommodation for a substantial proportion of, 

 or for all, their pupils ; (2) University Colleges and other 

 institutions situated in towns and not providing residential 

 accommodation on, or close to, their farms ; (3) Farm Schools 

 providing residential accommodation on farms. 



Institution. 



Total 

 Number 

 of 



Students 

 Leaving. 



Occupation of Parents. 



Occupation of Students. 



Farmers. 



Land- 

 owners. 



Others. 



Farmers. 



Land- 

 owners. 



Others. 



Agricultural Colleges (7) ... 

 University Colleges and other 



Institutions (5) 



Farm Schools (3) 



1,064 



384 

 321 



469 



279 

 221 



100 



7 



6 



435 



98 

 94 



843 



3IO 

 294 



I6l* 

 2 



60 



53 



25 



Total 



1,769 



969 



173 



627 



i,447 



184* 



138 



Include a few teachers, &c. 



Of 1,769 pupils for whom full particulars are available, it 

 will be seen that 1,631 are known to have returned to occupa- 

 tions connected with the land, and the great majority are 

 engaged in farming. The "others" number 138, and include 

 a good many who have been lost sight of and may have taken 

 to agriculture. As regards parentage it will be observed that 

 969 were the sons or daughters of farmers, and a further 173 

 were connected with the land. It will be remarked that the 

 largest proportion of pupils of non-agricultural origin is to 

 be found in the first group of agricultural colleges shown 

 above, the reason being that residential colleges in the 

 country, with farms attached, are always preferred by non- 

 agriculturists who wish to secure an agricultural training for 

 their children. One College, which would have been included 

 in Group 2 if particulars of the occupations of students had 

 been available, is somewhat exceptional in that the parents of 

 55 out of 79 pupils were not directly connected with the land. 



The Agricultural Department of the University of Cam- 

 bridge is in a different position from the institutions referred 



