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Board of Agriculture . — Annual Report on the Distribution of 

 Grants for Agricultural Education ond Research in the 

 year 1897-98 [C. 9061.] Price Z\d. 

 The total amount distributed by the Board in Grants for 

 Agricultural Education and Research in the year 1897-98 

 amounted to £j.2oo^ this sum being in addition to the other 

 expenditure incurred in the inspection of the educational and 

 experimental work of the institutions aided, and in visiting 

 and reporting on the educational work of County Councils 

 requesting such aid from the Board of Agriculture. As in 

 previous years, the larger portion of the amount mentioned 

 above was expended in subventions to collegiate centres in 

 England and Wales, and in the case of two of these centres, 

 viz., Durham College of Science and the University College 

 of North Vv^ales, additional grants were awarded towards the 

 maintenance of the college farms. Grants were made to tw^o 

 Dairy Institutes and to a special class for the training ot 

 working gardeners and foresters at the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh ; the grant to the latter class will, how- 

 ever, in future be borne on the vote of Her INIajesty's Ofhce 

 of Works. 



Grants of a different type were also made by the Board of 

 Agriculture towards the cost of certain specific experiments 

 or research conducted by Agricultural Associations, which, 

 although not ranking as teaching institutions, have found it 

 useful to devote some portion of the subscriptions of their 

 members to the prosecution of inquiries of this character. 



