ihe Junior Examination of Novemher, 1891. 
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seldom correct. Another instance of a perverse choice of long 
methods occurred in the answers to question 3. Very few saw that 
when the radius has been found, the area can be found by multiply- 
ing half the radius by 1000. I may add that in the answers to this 
question no attention was paid to the point that the area was to be 
found true to the nearest square inch." 
8. The results of the Examination as a whole are above the 
average of the last seven years, and may be considered as satisfactorj', 
especially as regards the large proportion of successes in Agriculture. 
The Committee would, however, point to the fact that as many as 
\ enteen candidates failed in Mechanics, and that but for failure 
.1 this subject live other candidates would have qualified for Ceiti- 
tii-ates if not for Scholarships. 
JojiN Tremayxe, 
December 8, 1891. Chairman. 
EXAMINATION IN AGRICULTURE. 
Maximum Numbeb op Marks, 400. Pass Numbee, 150. 
Tuesday, Xovemher 10, 1891. 
(^Three Jumrs allowed.) 
1 . Explain how draining improves land. 
2. Describe the making of a bare fallow. 
?>. Describe the cultivation of the potato crop, from the preparation of the 
l.ind to the raising of the tubers. 
4. Explain the influence of food on the quantity and quality of milk yielded 
by a cow. 
5. State some of the general points attended to in selecting rams for 
breeding purposes. 
6. State approximately the number of carts, ploughs, rollers, harrows, 
corn-drills, horse-hoes, cultivators, reapers, mowers, and horse-rakes required 
on a farm of 300 acres of mixed husbandry. 
7. Sketch a good arrangement of the parts of a double cow-stall, giving 
dimensions. 
8. In milking a cow explain the advantages and disadvantages of the 
stripjnng manner of milking, the squeezing or itsivliiuj, and also the wet and 
the dry methods. 
9. Give a ration suitable for an ordinary working farm-horse for summer 
feeding, and also one for winter. 
10. Write a short paper on the variations in the climate of different parts 
of Great Britain, gi\in some details regarding rainfall, temperature, and 
elevation. 
