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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agricidtitre. Report on the Distribution of Grants 

 for Agricidtural Education in Great Britain in the 

 Financial Year, 1894-5, with an Appendix. [C.-7777.] 

 Price 9d. 



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, 1895. Out of the total vote of 8,000^. 

 entrusted to the Board for educational purposes, the sum of 

 7,400^ was allocated in the form of specific grants to the 17 

 institutions enumerated in the table appended. The balance was 

 applied to making the necessary provision for the cost of 

 inspecting the work of the collegiate bodies or societies applying 

 for assistance, as well as for the inspection of the educational 

 arrangements of various county councils, undertaken at the 

 request of those authorities. 



The growth of the grants, and their gradual concentration 

 on specific centres of agricultural instruction of a wider and 

 more advanced type, than could, as a rule, be provided by 

 county councils out of the moneys applicable to tlie local work 

 of technical agricultural education, may be traced in the following 

 rough analysis of the distribution of the vote, since it was first 

 granted by Parliament in 1888-9 : — 





General 

 Schemes of 

 Agricul- 



Special and Provisional Grants. 





Year. 



tural 

 Education 

 in connec- 

 tion with 

 Collegiate 

 Centres. 



Instruction 

 in 



Dairying. 



Local Agri- 

 cultural 

 Schools 



and 

 Classes. 



Field 

 Experi- 

 ments and 

 Research. 



Total. 



1888- 89 - 



1889- 90 - 



1890- 91 - 



1891- 92 -. 



1892- 93 - 



1893- 94 - 



1894- 95 - 



£ 



200 

 400 

 550 

 2,400 

 3,600 

 4,450 

 5,550 



1,025 

 1,800 

 1,805 

 1,935 

 1,500 

 1,025 

 950 



£ 

 1,315 

 1,725 

 1,650 

 1,335 

 1,300 

 900 

 250 



£ 



390 

 660 

 835 

 1,035 

 1,025 

 725 

 650 



£ 

 2,930 

 4,585 

 4,840 

 6,705 

 7,425 

 7,100 

 7,400 



Full summaries intended to illustrate the work of the existing 

 centres are given in the Appendix to this Report, in which also 

 are given reports on the work of special institutions, and on 

 the experimental work for demonstration or research, aided by 

 grants from the Board. 



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