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Agricultural Education Exhibition. 
number grows greater every year — are very emphatic in their 
demands that more attention should be paid to “ with Practice,” 
and this notwithstanding that they may be getting more and 
more ready to admit the application of “ Science ” to their 
everyday lives. 
It is much to be regretted that the many good exhibits 
which, after arduous and self-sacriticing labour, the “ Newcastle 
Agricultural” Staff placed before the public, Lave, owing to 
considerations of space, to be left with no more notice than the 
following brief extract from the catalogue affords. 
Agriculture. — Sections and examples of turf from many localities showing 
the action of manures on the soil itself as well as the effect of different 
manurings on the heibage. Thirty-five slides showing examples of weed seeds 
apt to be found as impurities in commercial samples of seed corn, &c. 
Specimens of, with notes on, the great development of Lucerne root. 
Varieties of barley and oats. Pot culture experiments, &c., &c. Chemistry . — 
Poisonous impurities apt to get into farm foods. Pure and impure copper and 
iron sulphates. Variations in the feeding value of different swedes and 
turnips displayed diagramatically. And various chemical phenomena. 
Diiirg. — Diagrams from the Durham County Station at Offerton. Colostrum 
and milk impurities, preservatives and variations. Kations for milch cows. 
Also other exhibits including some Showing the visible effects of bacterial 
work on various dairy products. Botany. — Fungoid and bacterial diseases 
of plants were shown in innumerable stages. Potatoes, cereals, &c., 
suffering from many of the ills that farm produce is heir to were on view. 
Among them were to be noticed some very extraordinary malformations of 
turnip bulbs. Zoology. — This section included specimens of parasites 
affecting farm stock. Injurious Insects , Tuberculous Udders , and the 
Skeletolugy of the Horse in health and disease. 
These and many other interesting items had been got 
together by Professors Gilchrist and Potter, Messrs. Walker, 
Meek, Collins, Drummond, Gray, and Laurence (of the Cumber- 
land and Westmorland Farm School). These gentlemen were 
assisted in their indefatigable efforts to instruct the crowds 
who visited the eight bays of which their exhibit consisted, by 
students from the College. 
The County Council’s Association. — (Education Committee 
of Cumberland, Durham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, 
and Westmorland). — The wonderful display of specimens of 
work done by children who are nowadays being encouraged, 
through their school work, to take an interest in rural life, 
must be most gratifying to those who have urged attention to 
Nature study, school gardens, &c., upon the educationalists. 
It is hard to believe, when one looks at the exhibits, that so 
great a result can have been achieved in so short a time as is 
the case. 
The great number of the exhibits prohibits detailed 
comment, and with the majority so good the exceptions alone 
can be touched upon. Among these we would mention 
instances where the work exhibited showed that teachers had 
