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disposal of the head of the Agricultural Department at the 

 College for the purposes of feeding experiments and demon- 

 strations of improved processes in the practice of the- 

 manuring, tillage, and cropping of land, etc. It is also men- 

 tioned that forestry will have its place in the work carried 

 out on the farm, a small nursery for seedlings having been 

 formed and an arboretum projected. To meet the additional 

 expenditure thus entailed the Board have been in a position 

 to make a special grant of £200 besides the ;£8oo voted to 

 the ordinary funds of the College. 



Other increases of grants were made in the cases of the 

 University Extension College at Reading, the Nottingham 

 University College, with which the Midland Dairy Institute 

 is associated, and the new South Eastern Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Wye, which has been equipped by the counties of 

 Kent and Surrey. Special reference is made to an additional 

 grant of £100 to the University at Cambridge, in order to 

 meet the expenditure entailed by a new course of lectures 

 designed to show the direct application of scientific know- 

 ledge to the practice of Agriculture. A hope is expressed 

 that the success of this experiment may perhaps ultimately 

 lead to the establishment of a Chair of Agriculture and 

 Forestry, a step which might prove of great advantage to a 

 large class of students. 



Grants have been continued for another year to two special 

 Institutes devoted solely to dairy education, viz.: the British- 

 Dairy Institute and the Eastern Counties Dairy Institute ; 

 while special grants have been made to the Bath and West 

 of England Society for their research work into the con- 

 ditions affecting the manufacture of Cheddar cheese and 

 cider. 



Although grants for agricultural education in Scotland are 

 now dealt with by the Scottish Ofiice, and the educational 

 grants of the Board of Agriculture are therefore practically 

 restricted to institutions in England and Wales, it has been 

 found convenient to continue for the present certain specific 

 grants of an exceptional character to the Royal Botanic 

 Garden at Edinburgh, the Highland and Agricultural 



