266 PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 

to agriculture should, as a rule, be held at the central 
agricultural institutions, and should be under the general 
direction of the managers thereof; but the funds for the 
maintenance: of such classes should not be a charge upon the 
special agricultural grant to those institutions. The object 
of that grant is, in the first piace, to foster the scientific study 
of agriculture (to the highest possible degree) by, it may 
be, a comparatively select body of students; and, in the 
second place, to make the results of scientific research 
known as widely as possible among the farming community 
by suitable agencies, so as to ensure that this expenditure of 
public funds shall be a direct benefit to the agriculture of the 
country. The application of the funds to any purpose less 
germane to the principal object should be jealously guarded 
against. 
The Department’s grant of £2,000 has during the present 
year been augmented from the sum available under Section 2, 
sub-Section 4, of tke Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 
1898, so that the amount distributed shows an increase as 
compared with the previous year. 

1898-99 1899-1900. 
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Aberdeen University (Agricultural Department) - 295 O O 600 O O 
Edinburgh School of Rural Economy - - 570204 800 0 O 
Glasgow and West of Scotland Agora! 
College - - . - : . 750 16 8) 
Kilmarnock Scottish Date: Taste - - - 205) 10 by meer gf 
Expenses of Inspection — - - . : . So “3 54 77 ifs 

£2,000 0 O |£3,477 17 2 



Report of the Chief Inspector of Factortes and Workshops for 
1800 ||\Gd. 223.5 Ae7ecc OS. aol 
This report refers to the action taken by the Home Office 
to prevent anthrax being contracted in the combing 
and sorting of wool, and handling of hides, skins and 
