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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



J^oard of Agriculture. — Annual Report on the Distrihition of 

 Gra7its for Agricultural Education in the Financial Year 

 1896-7. [C — 8690.] Price ^\d. 



The Annual Report dealing with the Administration of 

 the Parliamentary Grant in aid of Agricultural Education 

 shows that out of the funds entrusted to the Board of Agri- 

 culture for educational purposes, during the year 1896-7, 

 sums amounting to £6^g^o have been distributed in specific 

 grants to 14 separate institutions, and that provision has also 

 been made for the cost of inspecting the work of collegiate 

 bodies and of certain County Councils. The Report, as was 

 the case last year, indicates the advantages gained by a con- 

 centration of the larger portion of the educational grants on 

 those ccQtres of agricultural instruction in England and 

 Wales where education of an advanced type can be more 

 -easily provided than would be the case in the limited areas 

 -of indiv^idual County Councils. 



The subjects generally taught in these centres of education 

 are then enumerated, and attention is directed to the facilities 

 offered for teaching outside the institution by the lecturers of 

 the College staff in connection with the schemes of parti- 

 cular counties. The number of the general centres of the 

 type referred to remains the same as in the immediately pre- 

 ceding year, but in several directions extensions of their 

 spheres of work have been met by increased assistance from 

 the Board. This is notably the case as regards the Durham 

 College of Science, where an important educational depar- 

 ture has been made by the Northumberland County Council 

 in the acquisition of a farm near Morpeth to be placed at the 



