40 Kates on Agricultural Education at Home and Abroad. 
Practical instruction will be given in tbe following subjects : — 
(c) Farm Work, Stock-keeping, Carpentry, Smitb's Work (including 
Horse-sboeing), Surveying and LeveUing, Forestry, Fruit-culture, 
Bee-keeping, and Veterinary Surgery. 
At Woodbridge, in Suffolk, the scheme for another school is 
under consideration, to which a scientific side will be attached, 
and in which the subjects of education will be : Chemistry, 
especially Agricultural Chemistry ; Mineralogy ; Botany ; Ap- 
plied Mechanics ; Animal Physiology ; and, at an extra fee of 
41. a year, Practical Agriculture. 
The fees in this school will be higher, but here also there will 
be scholarships and exhibitions. 
I would here, however, refer the reader for more detailed 
information on tbe position of agricultural education on the 
Continent and in England to the papers on that subject pub- 
lished in the Journal in 1885, and written by Mr. Herbert Little, 
whose untimely death has deprived the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, and the agricultural interest of England, 
of one of their brightest and most intellectual members. 
Up to the present time the Royal Agricultural Society has 
done nothing towards providing or encouraging the teaching 
of agriculture by travelling lecturers. The Bath and West of 
England Society has made an admirable start in this direction 
by the institution of its travelling dairy school ; and it would 
not seem unreasonable that our own Society should encourage 
and assist efforts made in this direction by local and district 
associations. 
France. 
I have not space here to do more than glance at the admirable 
and exhaustive Report on French Agricultural Schools which 
was prepared for the Agricultural Department of the Privy 
Council by Major Craigie in 1888, and which contains a mass 
of detail most interesting to the agriculturist. Since Mr. 
Jenkins wrote on this subject in 1882 great alterations have 
taken place, and the questions under consideration seem to have 
been systematised and thought out very completely. To quote 
Major Craigie, agricultural education is provided in France — 
I. In Elementary Scbools. 
(a) In ordinary Ecoles rrhnaires. 
(b) In tbe higher Ecoles Primaires Supirieures. 
(c) In tbe Normal Scbools wbicb provide teacbers for (a) and (£>). 
II. By Local Lectures. 
(a) By Itinerant Professors. 
(b) By Fixed Cbaira or Courses of Agricultural Instructiou. 
