Agricultural  Education  Exhibition,  1910.  22 5 
The  National  Fruit  and  Cider  Institute — the  first  exhibit 
in  the  order  of  the  catalogue — had  its  usual  instructive  and 
comprehensive  display.  There  was  so  much  to  see  there  that 
our  space  will  not  allow  us  to  refer  to  all  the  items  of  special 
interest.  We  would,  however,  mention  that  those  in  search  of 
such  knowledge  must  have  benefited  greatly  by  the  information 
afforded  by  the  practical  display  of  the  results  obtained  by 
good  and  by  bad  pruning,  grafting,  budding,  &c. 
The  College  of  Agriculture,  Holmes  Chapel. — The  Cheshire 
College  had  the  advantage  of  being  comparatively  near  the 
“ Royal  ” Showground.  The  staff  took  full  advantage  of  the 
occasion  and  gave  the  visitors  a very  complete,  excellently 
arranged,  and  skilfully  displayed  exhibition  of  the  College 
work.  It  was  most  instructive  to  see  the  exhibit  dealing  with 
that  terrible  pest  the  black  scab  or  wart  disease  of  the  potato. 
Every  one  knows  the  grave  danger  of  ignorance  when  a hitherto 
uncommon  pest  threatens  a general  invasion  such  as  is  now  the 
case  with  this  disease.  Any  visitor  of  ordinary  intelligence 
spending  ten  minutes  in  the  Holmes  Chapel  College  bay  at  the 
Liverpool  Show  could  have  made  himself  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  the  appearance  of  wart  disease,  so  skilfully  and  thoroughly 
were  all  the  various  phases  of  that  terrible  scourge  displayed. 
With  so  much  that  might  be  commented  upon,  it  seems 
almost  invidious  to  mention  a particularly  graphic  diagram 
showing  the  results  of  feeding  trials  with  soya  cake  and  a very 
fine  example  of  the  injury  done  by  that  expensive  pest  the 
warble  fly.  Hitherto  the  damage  done  to  the  hides  of  cattle 
by  this  insect  seems  to  have  escaped  the  attention  of  the 
agriculturist,  however  much  it  may  have  agitated  the  feelings 
of  the  tanner.  As  the  ravages  of  the  pest  can  easily  be  checked 
by  the  farmer,  it  seemed  particularly  appropriate  to  find  the 
subject  so  well  treated  at  the  Cheshire  College  stall. 
The  Agricultural  Education  Association  once  again  had  a 
numerous  and  comprehensive  display  of  professional  literature. 
The  University  College  of  North  Wales,  Bangor,  was  par- 
ticularly strong  in  its  display  of  live  stock  illustrations.  The 
number  of  winners  bred  on  the  College  farm  must  have  struck 
with  wonder  those  who  believe  that  academic  agriculture  is 
solely  carried  on  by  means  of  test  tubes  in  a laboratory. 
The  University  College  of  Wales,  Aberystwyth,  had  a small 
exhibit  which  was,  however,  enough  to  show  that  that  institu- 
tion is  in  full  vigour — the  illustrations  of  which  the  display 
was  chiefly  composed  largely  relating  to  the  College  work. 
It  was  particularly  pleasing  to  note  that  one  item  dealt  with  the 
“ Effect  of  Harrowing,”  for  though  the  turves,  as  shown,  are  too 
small  an  example  to  be  properly  representative,  it  is  very 
gratifying  to  find  that  work  is  being  done  on  so  important  a 
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