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aim being “ to place before farmers and gardeners an object 
lesson for guidance in their work and to stimulate them to 
improve their methods of cultivation.” 
It would be very unwise for a committee sitting in London 
to attempt to work out a scheme suitable for every part of the 
country. No such attempt is made by this Committee, but the 
following is a broad outline of the system of agricultural in- 
struction which they recommend : — In each large district or 
agricultural province, comprising several counties, there would 
be an agricultural department to a university or university 
college. This would provide the highest form of agricultural 
education in the district, would be definitely connected with 
every agricultural institution anti every county in its area, and 
would exercise scientific supervision over every type of agri- 
cultural instruction and over every experiment conducted in the 
locality. There would also be one or more agricultural colleges 
in the province ; and in each county, or group of two counties, 
there could be a farm-institute at which the local instructors 
would have their headquarters. These instructors would, during 
the winter months, conduct a winter school (in most cases held 
in the institute itself) and provide lectures at different centres 
in the county or counties with which they were connected. 
In the summer months, when the students at the winter school 
had returned to their farms, the instructors would visit farmers 
and gardeners, making a special effort to keep in touch with 
those who had passed through the winter school. In dairying 
districts, a three months’ summer dairy school might, as in 
Denmark, very usefully be held. Such a system as this, of 
which we already have the nucleus in many parts of the coun- 
try, would prove, if assisted by means of carefully graded 
scholarships, of immense value to agriculture. 
Dairying. 
It is probably in instruction in dairying, as well as in the 
practice of dairy-farming, that Britain has most to learn from 
some of her foreign competitors. Excellent work is being done 
by milk-record societies, but they are far too few. The Report 
notes with satisfaction the great increase both in the facilities, 
and in the demand, for instruction in this subject since the days 
of the Paget Committee ; but at present this country, in the 
matter of dairy-research, has to rely largely upon foreign sources. 
Dairy-institutes are giving good instruction in the treatment 
of milk, and in the making of butter and cheese. Some of 
them, however, buy their milk, instead of themselves keeping 
cows, thus failing to attach due importance to the breeding and 
rearing of dairy-cattle, with a view to increase the yield and 
quality of milk. In the improvement of methods of milking, 
