Ixxxiv Agricultural Education — Examination Papers, 1875. 
breeding stack, rouglily skctcli tlio ground plan of the necessary 
buildings. 
3. State the average cost per acre of steam-ploughing clay land 
uine inches deej), and cultiv.ating six inches decj) ; haud-hoeing wheat 
t.vice over; thinning and twice hand-hoeing mangold; taking up, 
cleaning, and heaping in the field a 15-ton crop of swedes ; reaping 
by hand a 5-quarter crop of wheat ; tying up and shoking a similar 
crop behind the machine. 
4. Describe the several points in order of their importance by 
which you estimate the efficiency of a portable steam thrashing- 
machine. 
5. Describe briefly the prominent distinctive characters of the 
Chilliugham Park, Short-horn, Devon, Angus, and Ayrshire cattle. 
6. Specify the descriptions and quantities of food to be given daily, 
at the present season, to a good dairy cow, weighing 12 cwt., and 
calved a month, in order to secure economically the best return of 
produce. With such feeding what would be the probable daily yield 
of milk, and weekly yield of butter ? 
7. What is the present current price per ton of the following 
feeding stuffs, and what is their manurial value when consumed by 
three-year-old |fecding bullocks, namely, meadow-hay, wheat-straw, 
linseed, cotton-cake, bran, and wheat ? 
8. What proportion does the live weight bear to the dead weight of 
a lean three-year-old ox, a well fatted three-year-old ox, a half-bred 
sheep eighteen months old, a fifteen-score bacon pig, and a fat calf? 
9. How arc horses affected after greedily eating (1) unbruised wheat, 
(2) overheated hay, and (3) damp new beans? What frequently 
befalls impoverished young cattle liberally supplied with decorticated 
cotton-cake, and what is the usual eflect of restricting cattle to straw 
and uudecorticated cotton-cake ? How do young rams suffer when 
forced with mangold and corn ? 
10. Describe the management of 200 half-bred lambs, from the 
period of weaning until they are sold in the following April, weighing 
from 20 lbs. to 21 lbs. per quarter. State the daily weight of roots, 
fodder, and concentrated food they will consiuuo between Candlemas 
and Lady-day. 
11. What vermin infest the skins of sheep ? and describe how eacli 
description of vermin is to be got rid of. 
12. Describe the nature of the following diseases of plants, viz., 
smut in wheat, ergot of rye, finger-and-tocs in turnips, and clover- 
dodder. 
The vivii voce examination commences at 2 6'cloclc. 
