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AamCULTURAL EDUCATION. 
Examination Papers, 1882. 
EXAMINATION IN AGEICULTURE. 
Maximum Numbek of Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Tuesday, May dth,from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
1. What would be tlie required live and dead stock for a farm of 
600 acres ; 400 acres of which should be arable land of good quality, 
capable of growing roots and beans, the other 200 acres good grazing 
pasture land? 
The same where the arable land should be medium clay soil and 
the pasture land of fair quality suitable for dairying ? 
The same where the arable laud should be a stone brash and 
the pasture of a rough healthy quality, suitable for the rearing 
of stock ? 
2. State the best rotation of cropping for the arable land on each 
of the above-mentioned description of soil. 
3. If, on entering a light-land farm at any Michaelmas, you found 
the part in course for roots to be full of couch and other weeds, what 
would be your cultivation for such roots with a view to cleaning the 
land before planting it ? 
4. State the quantity of seed-wheat which shoiild be planted per 
acre on different kinds of soils, and under the different conditions of 
such soils. 
5. The same of Barley. 
6. A quantity of wheat has to be thrashed. How many men would 
be required for the work, the straw being stacked in the yard, and a 
6-horse engine with a finishing machine being used ? 
7. Given, a field of wheat-stooks (a good crop) to be carted half-a- 
mile to the homestead, two pitchers being employed for the work. 
How many horses and carts, or waggons would be required, and how 
many men at the rick ? 
8. Describe the proper management of breeding Ewes, from 
October to the time tliey are brought to fold, and of lambs from birth 
until they are weaned. 
9. What quantity of corn or cake is it desirable to give to feeding 
sheep on turnips when but little hay can be spared for them in their 
chaff ? Secondly, when they have all hay-chaff of good quality ? 
