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adepts at inoculation for the former and testing for the latter. Every- 
thing connected with dairy work is imparted to them by competent experts. 
After a college course of dairying, there will be small likelihood of a student 
going wrong in purchasing dairy stock. As to the various operations of the 
dairy, the most ample means of instruction in milk separating, pasteurising and 
condensing, in butter and cheese making, are placed at his disposal. He is also 
instructed in the accessory industry of pig-raising, of ham and bacon curing. 
He learns to kill the animals required for food, and to salt, pickle, and smoke 
meat, to preserve fruits as well as to grow them, to detect, distinguish, and 
destroy insect and fungus growth on fruit trees, to plant and prune vines, and 
also is inducted into the pleasantand useful art of growing vegetables of all 
descriptions. 
In the course of these labours, many and varied implements, machines, and 
utensils come under his notice, with all of which he is made thoroughly 
acquainted. Add to all this that he goes through a solid elementary course of 
agricultural chemistry in a perfectly equipped laboratory, and is instructed 
- by able chemists; that botany, physiology, animal and plant pathology, and 
land-surveying form a portion of his school work; and it will be seen 
that as an educational establishment nothing ean equal a well-regulated 
agricultural college for fitting a youth to battle his way through life. Latin, 
Greek, literature, and history are good. They may make the professor, 
teacher, lawyer, or parson, but the backbone of the country—those by 
whom the former live—are the farmers. Therefore, study farming, where 
such a grand opportunity offers itself in your midst, and in the word 
“farming’’ include sheep, cattle, and hog raising, dairying, sugar-planting, 
&c. Remember that every science and every art are, to a very great extent, 
dependent upon agriculture. What would become of Manchester without the 
cotton-grower? ‘Think of the loss that would be sustained by France and 
other southern European countries if the vignerons were to give up growing 
vines! Look at the great cities that have arisen, and at the vast fortunes 
which have been made, solely by the help of the farmer who marched his crops 
of maize to market on four legs—pig’s trotters! To go further atield, let us 
suppose the tea-growers of India and China and Ceylon to abandon the pursuit, 
or the indigo-planters and the wheat-growers of the world to go on strike, what 
would become of the world ? ‘The world depends wholly and solely on the 
farmer. Therefore the farmer should call in every aid to help him to farm on 
such principles as will insure to him good crops, good markets, and good prices. 
And all these aids are, or rather the preparation for them is, at his hand in all 
parts of the civilised world in the shape of training establishments, whether 
they be called colleges, experiment stations, or dairy schools. The wise youth 
enor, how to enjoy these blessings, and make good use of them later 
in life. 
Agriculture. 
FURTHER NOTES ON PULSES SUITABLE FOR GREEN-CROP 
MANURING. 
By ALBERT H. BENSON. 
In the May and August numbers of this Journal, I have already given a short 
description of two pulses suitable for green-crop manuring—viz., the Velvet 
and Black Mauritius Beans, both of which are varieties of the Cowage, Mucuna 
pruriens, var. utilis ; and in the present article I purpose dealing with varieties 
of two other species of pulses that we have been testing at the Redland Bay 
Experiment Orchard, and some of which seem to be admirably adapted to the 
