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Board of Agriculture. — Report on the Distribution of Grants 

 for Agricultural Education in Great Britain in the Finan- 

 cial Year, 1895-1896, with an Appendix. [0.-8228.] 

 Price 9d. 



This volume contains Major Craigie's annual report to the 

 President 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 1896. Out of 

 the funds entrusted to the Board of Agriculture for educational 

 purposes, sums amounting to 7,850£. have been distributed in 

 specific grants to the 18 institutions enumerated in the table 

 appended, the balance being applied to the cost of inspecting 

 the work of the collegiate bodies or societies applying for assis- 

 tance, and to the inspection of the educational arrangements of 

 certain county councils, undertaken at the request of those 

 authorities. 



The gradual concentration of the grants on fully equipped 

 centres of agricultural instruction of a wider and more advanced 

 type than could, as a rule, be provided for limited areas by 

 individual county councils is shown by the following analysis 

 of the distribution of the vote since it was first granted by Par- 

 liament in 1888-9 :— 



Financial Year. 



General 

 Agricultural 

 Education under 

 Collegiate 

 Centres, 

 including 

 Dairying and 

 Experiments. 



Special and Provisional Grants. 



Instruction 

 in 



Dairying 

 at Special 

 Institutes. 



Local 

 Schools 



and 

 Classes. 



Agri- 

 cultural 

 Experi- 

 ments and 

 Research. 



Total 



in 

 Great 

 Britain. 



1888- 89 



1889- 90 



1890- 91 



1891- 92 



1892- 93 



1893- 94 



1894- 95 



1895- 96 



£ 



200 

 400 

 550 

 2,400 

 3,600 

 4,450 

 5,550 

 6,100 



.£ 

 1,025 

 1,800 

 1,805 

 1,935 

 1,500 

 1,025 

 950 

 900 



£ 

 1,315 

 1,725 

 1,650 

 1,335 

 1,300 

 900 

 250 

 300 



£ 



390 

 660 

 835 

 1,035 

 1,025 

 725 

 650 

 550 



2,930 

 4,585 

 4,840 

 6,705 

 7,425 

 7,100 

 7,400 

 7,850 



Fully equipped centres were engaged in 1895-6 in supplying 

 agricultural education for groups of contiguous counties in three 

 cases in England, two in Wales, and two in Scotland. In three 

 other instances in England, and one in Scotland, collegiate centres 

 more recently organised, were in process of development for other 

 groups of counties. 



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