260 PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 
respecting the educational work done during the year by 
the subsidised colleges and dairy institutes. Summaries are 
also given of some of the principal experiments carried out 
under the supervision of these institutions and of the societies 
referred to below. 
As an indication of the diversified nature of the experi- 
mental and research work in agriculture, carried out in 
England and Wales during the year 1899-1900, it is interesting 
to note that the investigations of which summaries are given 
in the appendix include a rotation experiment conducted on 
uniform lines in different parts of the country; a number of 
manurial experiments on grass, and on root and grain crops ; 
experiments in the economic feeding of bullocks, calves, and 
swine; in the treatment of finger and toe; in the eradication 
of charlock ; in the cultivation and manipulation of hops; and 
in the manufacture of cider. 
The following is the lists of the grants awarded by the 
Board in 1899-1900 :— 














Institutions aided Work. 

Collegiate centre - 
University College of North Wales, Bangor - 
Do. 
do. do. - | Farm - - - 
Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne | Collegiate centre - Soo 
Do. do. do. - | Farm - - - 200 
South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye | Collegiate centre - Soo 
Do. do. do. - | Harm, - - - 200 
University College of Wales, ee ue - | Collegiate centre - 800 
Reading College - - - | do. - Soo 
Yorkshire College - -~— = - - | do. - Sco 
University of Cambridge, Aguicultural Dept. =| do. - 800 
University College, Nottingham - - - do. - 400 
i3 Midland Dairy Institute - - - | Dairy instruction - 300 
British Dairy Institute, Reading - - - do. . 300 
Eastern Counties Dairy Institute, Ipswich - do. - 300 
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society | Field experiments - 50 
Do. do. do. - | Cider experiments - 100 
Agricultural Research Association, Aberdeen - | Agricultural experi- 

ments - - - 100 

