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with moist sand, and receives a top-dressing of leaf-mould 
and rotted dung, and a few healthy worms are introduced. 
The operation should of course be undertaken in moist, 
calm, cloudy weather. 
VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from page 29.) 
§ UR inquiry into the Education system adopted by the 
Department of Science and Art will be confined 
chiefly to the Science division ; but it would be as 
desirable to have what may be termed an accurate “ stock- 
taking ” of the practical results achieved by the Art, as well 
as the Science, Schools : it would be very desirable, for in- 
stance, for the nation to know the proportion of French to 
English designs produced at the present time for our calico- 
printers, and the amounts paid respectively for each. Mr. 
Potter, the then largest calico-printer in the world, stated, 
in the evidence he gave before the SeleCt Committee of the 
House of Commons in 1864, that prior to 1840 there was a 
considerable remuneration to the designers at home : we 
most of us, he said, kept up large establishments, and to 
my certain knowledge there were many men receiving from 
£ 100 to £500 a year as designers for the trade ; I believe, 
he said, no such sums are now (1864) paid in this country. 
We are more than ever reliant upon the Paris ateliers for 
designs. I have, he said, made a calculation which I believe 
to be within the mark ; I know what certain houses pay — 
£ 2000 or £3000 a year — in Paris for designs. We have 
regular agencies there, which we had not even a few years 
ago. I believe the amount paid by calico-printers alone , at 
this very time, is enormous. I may state, at once, that I 
know twelve houses that pay from £25,000 to £50,000 a year 
for designs. I believe the entire payment now in the trade 
for French designs alone is upwards of £50,000 a year : we 
get much better designs in Paris ; unless it were so we 
