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Supplement to the “ Tropical Agriculturist. 
EXTENSION OF AGRICULTUEAL EDUCATION 
IN INDIA. 
The following is taken from the Resolution of 
the Government of Bengal regarding the opening 
of new agricnltunl classes at Sibpore : — 
The scheme of agricultural education to be 
provided at Seebpore includes tw’o classes. The 
course of study to be followed by .students in the 
upper class, qualifying for the higher diploma, i.s 
intended to train students for employment in the 
higher bratiches of the Revenue and cognate 
services, or for employment as managers and sub- 
manager.s of estates, or as tahsildars and land 
stewards. The course of study for the lower cla.'S 
■will be suitable for candidates for the office of 
kanungo and other subordinate posts in the 
Revenue service. Tne theoretical course for both 
i-classes will be limited to 14 months, including 
vacations, from June of one year to August of the 
next. During the eight months from November 
of the second year to the following June, it is 
contemplated that the students of both classes 
■will receive practical instruction on the Seebpore 
farm, as probationers on Government and Court 
of Wards’ estates, and that they will make e.xcur- 
sions to the Burdwan and Dumraon experimental 
farms. Dr. Leather, who was recently Agricul- 
tural Chemist to the Government of India, has 
also suggested that the students should visit the 
Allahabad and Cawnpore Farms, and Mr. Keventer’s 
Dairy farm at Aligurh. 
The higher course of study ■null be open to 
students of the Eiigineeuiiig College who have 
passed the F.E. examination at the end of their 
third year, who will already have studied chemis- 
try, physics, mathematics, surveying, levelling and 
drawing. It may be also arranged, so far as the 
available accommodation will i)ermit, to admit to 
this class B.A.’s nominated by Government who 
have passed by the B. course, or other students of 
sufficient educational attainment.s so nominated. 
The subjects to be taught in the upper class 
during the 14 months’ course of agricultural 
study are agriculture, organic and agricultural 
chemistry, and laboratory work, botan.y, physio- 
graphy, geology, meteorology of hydraulics, book- 
keeping, and zemindari accounts. Arrangements 
may be made for students to attend lectures in 
veterinary science at the Veterinary College, and 
special lectures will be given on the culture of lac, 
indigo, sugar, etc., as shown in Appendix A. to 
this Resolution. 
The syllabus of lectures prepared by Mukherji 
and revised by Dr. Leather, late Agricultural 
Chemist to the Government of India, which is 
printed as Appendix A. to this Resolution, is pro- 
visionally approved, but will be subject to such 
modification as may be found necessaryn The 
lower course of study v\ill be open to students of 
the College who have completed their second y'ear 
in the apprentice department, and to teachers 
sent from training schools with the sanction of the 
Director of Public Instruction. The course will 
include agriculture, surveying, workshop practice, 
botany, and zemindari accounts. At the close of 
their terms of theoretical study, the students of 
both classes will be examined in the subjects 
jprescribed in their course, and successful staden^s 
[June 1, 1898. 
will receive from the Principal of the College, in 
the higher clas,^, a diploma; in the lower, certi- 
ficate of proficiency. On the conclusion of the 
further term of practical training, and after fur- 
ther examination, the diplomas and certificates of 
those students who satisfy the examiners will be 
countersigned by t lie Dh-ector of the Department 
of Land Records and Agriculture, and will then 
qualify the holders for employment in the hioher 
or lower grades of tlie Revenue and cognate 
services. 
Ilis Honor the Lieutenant-Goi'ernor is jireparcd 
to assign one appointment annually in the Provin- 
cial Executive Service, and one in'tlie Subordinate 
Executive Service, to such of the hcldeis of ata-i- 
cultural diplomas as he may think ino.st de.^erving 
of or suitable for these a]!pointments, and will 
also consider favourably ajiplications for nomi- 
nations to be given to such .-tudeut«, autliorisiiuT 
them to compete at, the e.xamination for candidates 
for admission to the Provincial, Executive, and 
Ojjium Services, provided the applicant.-^ are, in 
other respects, considered by h.im to be suitable 
for admission to these service^. Students who 
hold certificates of proficiency in ngiiculture will 
be eligible for employment in the Subordinate 
Services .as kanungos in tlie Ciinnl Department 
and under the Court of Wards, and a.s normal 
school teachers. But it is not possible, at present, 
to state how many such a])pcintment.s can be 
given each year to the holders of agricultural 
certificjites. 
For the present, sLmlents in the agricultural 
cla.sses will not be required to pay ttition fees, but 
board, lodging, and lighting imi.st be paid for at 
the ordinary scale ; accommodation for students 
will be provided in the hostel attached to the 
College. 
Senior scholarships held by studetits when pass- 
ing the _ F.E. examination will continue to be 
tenable in the agricultural cla.^ses during the 
fourth year ; the number of such scholarships at 
present oiien to all the eenior students of the 
Seebpore College is 10, viz., 1 of .R20 a month, 
3 of E15 a mouth, 6 of RIO a month. In addition 
to these scholarships one graduate scholarship of 
E30 a month, tenable in the fifth year, will be 
awarded on the result of the fourth-year exami- 
nation, do student, s or the appre.alice department 
who join the agricultural classes, ten leduced 
feeships of R2 a month will be allotted, tenable 
during the 14 months of their theoretical training. 
During the final year of training, four stipends of 
RIO a month will be awarded on the results of the 
final agiicultural examination. 
OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
The folio-wing are the names of the students at 
present forming the Forestry class:— Messrs. Senevi- 
ratue, Rowlands, Tiathoiiis, Ferdinands, Perera 
and Rajapakse. 
We are glad to hear from Mr. E, Elliott of the 
results of experiments with two varieties of Paddy 
which were sent to us from North India as bein^ 
among the best cultivated in that locality. 
Writing to us, Mr. Elliott says : “ I will send for ex- 
hibition (^to the 1 ruit and Fh/W'ef Show^ somo 
