c Agricultural Education — Examination Papers, 1880, 
11. What are the chief agricultural uses of lime, and to what soils 
is its application most beneficial ? 
12. Describe shortly the cultivation of mangolds, swedes, and white 
turnips, and state what soil and climate are most favourable to each 
crop. 
13. What are the chief advantages of the use of the mowing machine , 
and the reaping machine ? 
14. What artificial manures are most beneficially applied to the 
wheat-crop ? State the quantities and probable cost of each manure 
and the best time of application. 
15. State for what purposes you consider that pigs may profitably 
be kept, and what changes the great increase in the importation of 
foreign bacon is bringing about in our pig breeding and feeding. 
16. Contrast the merits of the following breeds of sheep : — 
The Lincoln, the Cotswold, the Southdown, and the Shropshire. 
17. Describe the special merits of the following breeds of cattle : — 
Shorthorns, Herefords, Ayrshires, Channel Islands. 
18. State the advantages of covered yards for cattle in winter as 
compared with open yards. 
EXAMINATION IN CHEMISTEY. 
Maximum Number of Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Wednesday, April lith, from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
I. General Chemistry. 
1. Describe the chief characters of the following elements — nitro- 
gen, sulphur, lead, copper. What compounds do they severally form 
with oxygen ? 
2. State the chemical composition (or the chief components) of chalk, 
charcoal, flint, gypsum, oyster shells, bricks, water. Explain how 
hard water differs from soft water. 
3. What is meant by neutralising an acid ? Calculate how much 
dry carbonate of soda is required to neutralise a solution containing 
100 grs. of nitric acid, and how much to neutralise a solution con- 
taining 100 grs. of phosjjhoric acid ; and send up your calculation. 
(C : N : O : P : Na = 12 : 14 : 16 : 31 : 23). 
4. Describe a method of determining the amount of moisture present 
in the atmosphere at any time and place. How do you account for 
the comparative dryness of a N.E. wind ? 
5. Describe and explain ordinary methods of preparing (1) chlorine, 
(2) sulphuretted hydrogen, (3) caustic potash. Explain the chemical 
