cxliv Agricultural Education — Examination Papers, 1879. 
EXAMINATION IN AGEICULTUEE. 
Maximum Number of Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Tuesday, April 8th, from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
1. Modem science having rendered unnecessary some of the ancient 
restrictions on the cultivation of land, give a rotation of cropping 
adapted for — 
(1) Light land suited for turnip culture ; 
(2) Stronger soil adapted for beans, but on which roots can ordi- 
narily be consumed.; 
(3) Deep alluvial soil of good quality ; — 
which shall keep the land sufficiently clean, and shall not be of an 
excessively scourging character. 
2. State the manures (both farmyard and artificial) which you 
would ordinarily apply for each crop in each of the rotations alluded 
to in the preceding question, assuming the farm to be two-thirds 
arable, and all the straw and roots grown to be consumed on the land. 
3. On a farm of 600 acres, of which two-thirds are turnip-land of 
fair quality, and the pastures of an ordinary description, what would 
be the ordinary amount of stock (a) wintered and (b) summered ? 
In giving sheep-stock, specify ewes, lambs, and hoggets ; and give 
cattle and horses. 
4. Upon a farm of this description, how would you feed the horses 
winter and summer ? 
5. In feeding good cart-horses, in fiill work during the winter 
months, mention what would be the relative cost of the corn given 
them with old beans at 42s. per quarter ; maize at 26s. per quarter ; 
and good 12-stone oats at 20s. per quarter ; a sufficient allowance of 
any one of the three being given, and assuming the horses to have 
clover, hay, ad libitum, besides their corn ? 
6. State if, in your opinion, any modification or mixture of such 
foods would be desirable, giving your reasons for such change. 
7. Give the relative value (according to Lawes and Voelcker) of 
the manure made by cattle consuming them from — 
1) Linseed Cake, 
2^ Maize, 
(3) Undecorticated Cotton Cake, 
(4) Decorticated ditto, 
5) Mangolds, 
6) Wheat Straw. 
8. On a farm where a large proportion of young stock (both cattle 
and sheep) are reared, what artificial foods would you consider it most 
desirable to use ? 
9. In the purchase of artificial manures, what percentages of soluble 
and insoluble phosphates and of ammonia would you think it desirable 
to secure in — 
