222 PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. [Sept. 1895. 



The Appendix also contains brief summaries of the reports 

 on the agricultural educational work inspected by the Board at 

 the request of certain County Councils. 



The following is a list of grants awarded by the Board of 

 Agriculture in 1894-5. 



Institutions aided. 



Work. 



Grant 

 1894-5. 



England and Wales. 







University College of North Wales, Bangor - 

 Yorkshire College, Leeds _ - . 

 Durham College of Science, Newcastle-ou- 

 Tyne.. 



University College of Wales, Aberj^stwyth - 

 University Extension College, Reading 

 Cambridge and Counties Agricultural Educa- 

 tion Committee. 

 University College, Nottingham 

 Eastern Counties Dairy Institute 

 British Dairy Farmers' Association - 

 Bath and West and Southern Counties Society 



Scotland. 



Collegiate centre 

 Collegiate centre 

 Collegiate centre 



Collegiate centre 

 Collegiate centre 

 Collegiate centre 



Collegiate centre 



Dairy instruction 



Dairy instruction 



Special cheese and cider 

 research and agricul- 

 tural experiments. 



£ 



800 

 800 

 800 



800 

 500 

 400 



250 

 350 

 300 

 400 



Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical Col- 

 lege. 



University of Edinburgh _ _ . 

 University of Aberdeen - _ - 

 Scottish Dairy Institute, Kilmarnock 

 Highland and Agricultural Society 

 Aberdeen Agricultural Research Association 



Collegiate centre 



Collegiate centre 

 Agricultural instruction 

 Dairy instruction 

 Agriculturalexperiments 

 Agriculturalexperiments 



650 



550 

 100 

 300 

 150 

 100 



Special Class. 







Class for the instruction of working Foresters and Gardeners in the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 



150 



Jleport on the County of Dorset, by 31 r. R. H. Rew, Assistant 

 Commissioner to the Royal Commission on Acfriculture, 

 [C— 7764.] Price S\d. 



This report embodies the result of an inquiry by Mr. R. Henry 

 Hew, on behalf of the Royal Commission on Agriculture, into 

 the condition of agriculture in the county of Dorset. It seems 

 that, although the variety of conditions existent in that county 

 makes generalisation difficult, it may be fairly said that, with 

 very few, if any, exceptions, tenant farmers have had their 

 incomes considerably reduced and their capital seriously depleted. 

 Landlords have, as a rule, met the times by substantial reductions 

 of rent, which, however, must inevitably go still further. In 

 fact, the ownership of agricultural land is, it is maintained, 

 rapidly becoming a luxury, which only men possessing other 



