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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EXAMINATION 
BOARD. 
I.— REPORT ON THE RESULTS 
OF THE FOURTEENTH EXAMINATION FOR THE 
NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN AGRICULTURE, 
Held at Leeds, April 19 to 25, 1913. 
1. The Fourteenth Examination for the National Diploma 
IN Agriculture was held by the courtesy of the authorities, 
at the University of Leeds from the 19th to the 25th April 
last. 
2 . The Regulations and Syllabus were similar in all respects 
to those introduced for the first time last year. Each candidate 
was required to present a certificate from a recognised agri- 
cultural college that his attainments in the subjects of General 
Botany, Geology, General Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics, 
as attested by class and other examinations were, in the opinion 
of the authorities of his college, such as to justify his admission 
to the Examination ; or to produce other evidence of equivalent 
attainment. The subjects of Examination were Practical Agri- 
culture (two papers), Farm and Estate Engineering (including 
(a) Surveying, (b) Farm Buildings, (c) Machinery and Imple- 
ments), Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Botany, Agri- 
cultural Book-keeping, Agricultural Zoology, and Veterinary 
Science. Under the Regulations, the whole eight papers may 
be taken at one time, or a group of any four in one year and 
the remaining group of four in the year following. Candidates 
taking the whole Examination in one year who fail in two 
subjects only are allowed to take those subjects alone in the 
succeeding year. Candidates failing in a single subject of a 
group are permitted to take this again in conjunction with the 
second group. 
3 . The total number of candidates examined this year was 
112, and was greater than on any former occasion. Twenty- 
three of these presented themselves under the old Regulations, 
and 89 under the Regulations which came into force last year. 
4 . Of the 23 candidates who were this year, by special per- 
mission, completing the Examination under the conditions in 
force up to 1912, 14 were taking the five subjects of the old 
Part II. (consisting of Practical Agriculture, Agricultural 
Book-keeping or Mensuration and Land Surveying, Agricul- 
tural Chemistry, Agricultural Engineering, and Veterinary 
Science), and nine who had previously failed in only one 
subject of Part II. came up for that subject alone. As the 
