540 Report on Agricultural Education. 
The Albert Institution, Glasnevin. 
This Institution is designed to supply instruction in the 
science and practice of agriculture to the sons of farmers, agri- 
cultural teachers, and others. 
The farm contains about 180 statute acres. About 6 acres is 
cultivated as a small spade-labour farm ; about 23 acres is set 
apart to illustrate the system of farm management, where one or 
two horses are kept ; the remaining portion forms the " large 
farm." 
Arrangements are made for affording the students as large an 
amount of information as possible upon every branch of the 
business of farming, including dairy husbandry, fattening of 
cattle, breeding and rearing of stock, and the various operations 
of field culture. 
Three classes of students are admitted to the Institution, 
namely : — (1) Free resident students, who are boarded, lodged, 
and educated at the public expense, and who are admitted twice 
a year by competitive examination. (2) Paying resident 
students, who are admitted on certain conditions as to education, 
and who pay a fee of 11. lOs. per session (there are two terms or 
sessions of four months each in the year), which payment 
includes the cost of instruction, board, lodging, washing, and 
medical attendance ; and (3) Non-resident students, who board 
and lodge at their own expense in the neighbourhood, are 
amenable to the rules and regulations of the College, and pay in 
advance a fee of 21. a session. 
The Munster Dairy School. 
This Institution, which is within three miles of Cork, was 
established for the purpose of affording instruction in the science 
and practice of agriculture to the sons of farmers and others. 
The school is maintained by a grant from the National Board 
of Education, supplemented by local subscriptions. There are 
two main departments of the Institution, viz. : — (1) The instruc- 
tion and training of the sons of farmers and others in the best 
modes of developing the resources of the land, and (2) the 
instruction of the daughters of farmers and of others in improved 
modes of dairy management. Experiments are, moreover, 
carried out on the farm attached to the school. 
In the agricultural school there are practical demonstrations 
besides instruction in the science and practice of agriculture, 
whilst particular attention is paid to dairy husbandry, including 
the winter feeding of cows for the production of butter. Lectures 
are given on agriculture, chemistry, geology, veterinary sub- 
jects, and natural history ; and farm accounts, surveying, 
