The Royal Agricultural Society of England. 891 = 625 
though this scheme has been in operation more than ten years, 
le value of the Society's Certificate as a proof of knowledge 
ad ability does not yet seem widely enough recognised to 
iduce many Students to go through the somewhat thorough 
)urse of study necessary to obtain it. 
The Junior Examination has not been in operation more Junior 
lan four years. Ten scholarships of 20/. each, tenable for one Eiamination. 
ear, are annually offered for competition to pupils of certain 
liddle-Class Public Schools. The examinations are held 
t the schools in Xovember, and the scholarships are not 
aid until the following November, and then only upon receipt 
f a certificate that the scholar has passed the year either at 
hool, or at an Agricultural College, or with a practical farmer 
pproved by the Council. This scheme was designed as an 
iducement to tenant-farmers to keep their sons at school 
)nger than they usually do ; and also as an encouragement 
) the schools to introduce the Science and Practice of Agri- 
ulture into their curriculum. In both of these objects the 
:heme has already been fairly successful ; and it promises 
ery well for the future, as the number of schools on the list, 
nd the number of those which enter candidates for exami- 
ation, are both gradually increasing. In the course of time 
may be hoped that this scheme may act and re-act upon the 
enior Examination, first by inducing the junior scholars to enter 
pon the more thorough course of studv for its own sake and 
)r its practical value ; and secondly, by creating a demand 
3r teachers at the Middle-Class Schools — the head-masters of 
hich would attach due importance to the Society's First-class 
-ertificate. 
A third educational examination has been established only Examination o 
wo vears, and has already achieved a fair measure of success. ^ete"°»ry 
'rizes and ^ledals are annually offered to Graduates of the " 
loyal College of Veterinary Surgeons who have been educated 
t an English Veterinary College, and Avho have obtained their 
egree not less than three, and not more than fifteen months. 
The examination is both practical and theoretical, and is con- 
ined to the diseases, treatment, and pathology of cattle, sheep, 
nd pigs, with a view to induce young Veterinary Surgeons to 
xtend their observation and knowledge of the animals of the 
arm generally, instead of confining them, as has hitherto been 
GO generally the case, exclusively to the horse and his ailments. 
In all the existing schemes, the education of the Middle-class Education of 
s alone sought to be stimulated. The Senior Examination aims landownei 
it the large tenant-farmer and the land-agent ; the Junior 
scholarships are offered to the smaller tenant-farmer of the 
