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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[Dec. 1894. 



Board of Agriculture: Report on the Distribution of Grants 

 for Agricultural Education in Great Britain in the 

 Financial Year, 1893-94, with an Appendix. [C.-7495.] 

 Price 6{d. 



This volume is the annual report of the Board of Agriculture 

 on the administration of the Parliamentary grant in aid of 

 agricultural education in Great Britain, during the financial year 

 ended 31st March 1894. Out of the total vote entrusted to the 

 Board for educational purposes, the sum of 7,450^. was allocated 

 in the form of specific grants to the several institutions mentioned 

 below. The balance was devoted to the necessary costs of inspec- 

 tion, including inspection of certain county council work, and to the 

 special outlay incurred in the reproduction of the complete series 

 of records of the Rothamsted experiments for the past 50 years. 

 An Appendix reproduces summaries of various reports on 

 institutions aided and contains a record of certain field experi- 

 ments aided out of the vote, and a report on special research 

 in the processes of Cheddar-cheese making. 



The following is a list of grants awarded by the Board of 

 Agriculture in 1893-4 : — 



lustitutions aided. 



Work. 



Grant 

 1893-4. 



England and Wales. 



University College of North Wales, Bangor 

 Yorkshire College, Leeds - - - - 

 Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. 



University College of Wales, Aberystwyth - 

 Cambridge and Counties Agricultural Edu- 

 cation Committee. 

 University College, Nottingham - - - 

 University Extension College, Reading 

 Bath and West and Southern Counties 

 Society. 



Eastern Counties Dairy Institute 

 British Dairy Farmers' Association - 



Scotland. 



Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 

 College. 



University of Edinburgh - - - - 



University of Aberdeen - - - - 

 Scottish Dairy Institute, Kilmarnock - 

 Highland and Agricultural Society 

 Aberdeen Agricultural Kesearch Association 

 Dounby Science School, Orkney 



Special Classes. 



Class for the higher instruction of Dairy 



Teachers engaged under local authorities 



and institutions. 

 Class for the instruction of Working Foresters 



and Gardeners in the Royal Botanic 



Garden, Edinburgh. 



Collegiate centre - 

 Collegiate centre - 

 Collegiate centre - 



Collegiate centre - 

 Collegiate centre - 



Collegiate centre - 

 Collegiate centre - 

 Special Cheese research 

 and Agricultural ex- 

 periments. 

 Dairy Instruction - 

 Dairy Instruction - 



Collegiate centre - 



/ Agricultural instruction 

 1 Forestry class 

 Agricultural instruction 

 Dairy instruction - 

 Agricultural experiments 

 Agricultural experiments 

 Agricultural experiments 



800 

 800 

 800 



700 

 400 



200 

 150 

 400 



350 

 250 



600 



450 

 100 

 200 

 250 

 200 

 100 

 25 



175 



150 



