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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture : Grants for A gricultural Education 

 and Research . 1 900- 1 90 1 . [ Cd. 814.] Price 1 1 \d. 



The amount of the grants distributed by the Board to 

 agricultural educational institutions in 1 900-1 901 in England 

 and Wales was £7,850 ; while a further sum of £200 was 

 paid in grants to agricultural associations for experimental 

 work. The aggregate of the grants was thus £8,050 as com- 

 pared with £7,750 in the previous year. In 1 900-1 901, there 

 was, in addition, an expenditure of £294 on special experi- 

 ments and research. The Report reviews the growth of State 

 aid for agricultural education since 1888 ; and reference is 

 made to the large sums annually placed at the disposal of 

 County Councils and made available for purposes of techni- 

 cal instruction in agriculture, as well as in other industries, 

 under the provisions of the Local Taxation (Customs and 

 Excise) Act of 1890. From an inquiry undertaken by the 

 Board, it appears that there was at the disposal of English 

 and Welsh County Councils in 1899- 1900 a sum of over 

 £500,000 for expenditure on technical instruction, and that 

 the sum allotted to agricultural education was approximately 

 £77,000, exclusive of payments made for instruction in 

 agricultural subjects at Evening Continuation Schools. It 

 io estimated therefore that, including the grants distributed 

 by the Board of Agriculture and the small sum disbursed by 

 the Board of Education in grants to Science and Art classes, 

 the aggregate amount of public money expended yearly in 

 England and Wales on agricultural education is between 

 £85,000 and £90,000. 



Part II. of the appendix to the Report contains a series of 

 accounts of the results of the principal experiments conducted 



