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AamCULTURAL EDUCATION. 
Examination Papers, 1880. 
EXAMINATION IN AGEICULTUEE. 
Maximum Number of Maeks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Tuesdmj, April lZtlt,from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
1. In selecting a farm for profitable occupation of from 300 to 400 
acres in extent, what considerations would chiefly guide you in youi- 
selection — 
1st. Supposing such farm to be wholly or chiefly arable, 
2nd. If such farm were all in grass, 
3rd. If mixed in the proportion of one-half or two-thirds grass ? 
2. What special features should a farm have to render it suitable 
for the production of milk for sale ? 
3. What prices per lb. of cheese and butter would pay as well as 
selling milk at 8d. per imperial gallon at the farm, or contiguous rail- 
way station ? 
4. What sort of arable land most needs conversion into permanent 
pasture ? 
5. Describe strictly the operation of seeding down permanent 
pasture, and its after treatment. 
6. What is the cheapest mode of improving poor rough jmsture on 
clay soil already drained, or not requiring drainage ? 
7. State the advantages of feeding cattle with cake whilst at grass — 
1st. For producing beef, 
2nd. For producing milk. 
8. Prime fodder and roots having been unusually scarce in the past 
winter, state what kinds and proportions of purchased foods may have 
been most usefully and economically given, and the weekly cost in 
each case of such extra food — 
1. To dairy cows in full milk, 
2. To young growing cattle, 
3. To fattening beasts. 
9. Describe shortly an economical method of rearing calves. 
10. If on a strong or loamy soil oats or barley be sown after wheat, 
describe the best time and mode of sowing, and state what artificial 
manure is suitable for application to the crop. 
