Dee. 1895.] 



GENERAL AGRIC CJLTURAL NOTES. 



335 



Agricuitural education is aided chiefly by scholarships and 

 grants to experimental stations. As regards the former, the 

 State is empowered to give as much as 24:1. per annum to 

 students who intend to devote themselves to agricultural teaching 

 or to agricultural engineering, conditionally upon their having 

 been engaged during at least a year in practical agriculture, 

 upon the canton joining to the scholarship a sum which must 

 be at least equal to that of the Confederation, and upon 

 the candidate formally binding himself to devote the next six 

 years at least to Swiss agriculture. Failure to carry cut this 

 last condition involves the return of the scholarship unless 

 satisfactory reasons can be adduced. 



The Confederation also grants a regular annual subsidy to 

 such cantons as already possess, or which intend to create, 

 theoretical and practical schools of agriculture, and summer and 

 winter courses of lectures ; the proposed schemes of these schools 

 and lectures being previously approved by the Federal Council. 

 Cantons engaging travelling agricultural professors and orga- 

 nising special conferences, lectures, or inspections of dairies, 

 cattle sheds, and pastures, or undertaking other steps tending to 

 benefit agriculture, are also eligible to receive grants. 



According to requirements, subsidies are granted in aid of the 

 creation and working of dairy stations, model dairies, experi- 

 mental arboricultural and viticultural stations, as well as 

 laboratories, &;c. The money for this purpose is provided for 

 in the Budget, after the Federal Council and the canton have 

 come to a satisfactory agreement as to the amount required. 

 The Confederation may also establish State laboratories and 

 experimental stations. 



The amounts paid by the State under this head during the 

 five years 1890-94 were as follows : — 



I'ederal Subventions in aid of Agricultural Education 

 AND Experiments. 





1890. 



1891. 



1892. 



1893. 



1894. 



Scholarships - - - 



Agricultural schools 



Travelling conferences and spe- 

 cial courses - - - 



Dairy and pasture inspection - 



Experimental stations and re- 

 searches - - > 



Schools of viticulture - 



188 

 277 



513 

 107 



]■ 906 

 J 



£ 



151 

 3,270 



577 

 120 



1,438 



133 

 3,732 



615 

 153 



2,013 



112 

 3,739 



624 

 125 



r 573 

 t 1,824 



& 



131 

 3,923 



1 691 



570 

 1,849 



Total 



4,489 



5,556 



6,645 



6,996 



7,164 



A credit of at least 16,000?. is annually provided for in the 

 Budget for the improvement of cattle. This money is devoted 

 to seconding the efibrts of the cantons in supplying the country 

 districts with good bulls, in increasing the number and improving 



