The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture. . omestic science andpoultry-keeping. A senior course will be provided for suchstudents as desire to remain for an additional term. For county students the fee will be £1 per week, this sumcovering payment for board and lodging and from other counties will be admitted, provided thereare vacancies, at a fee of £1 10s. per week. A certain numberof free places will be open to county students. The object of the instruction given at the Institute will beprimarily to prepare young men and women for the dailyroutine work on the farm or
The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture. . omestic science andpoultry-keeping. A senior course will be provided for suchstudents as desire to remain for an additional term. For county students the fee will be £1 per week, this sumcovering payment for board and lodging and from other counties will be admitted, provided thereare vacancies, at a fee of £1 10s. per week. A certain numberof free places will be open to county students. The object of the instruction given at the Institute will beprimarily to prepare young men and women for the dailyroutine work on the farm or in the farm household. Withthis end in view theoretical instruction will be co-ordinatedwith the practical work of the farm. Thus in book-keepingactual farm figures and accounts will be utilised. The management of the different crops and stock kept on the farm, thecarrying out of experiments, the actual handling of labourand the care and management of the gardens and orchards,will all form the foundation of the theoretical instruction pro-. 1920.] Plant Hvgiexe. ii6- vided in the class room. In the case of female students instruc-tion will be confined to plain cooking and laundry, to the makingof the common varieties of cheese in the county, and the keepingof poultry on either up-to-date farmyard principles or on thecolony system. Promising students who intend taking ex-tended courses of instruction at universities or agriculturalcolleges will be encouraged by scholarships to do so. Continuitywill in all cases be aimed at. Thus the Institute will work handin hand with the rural science schools and the rural eveningclasses on the one hand, and the university or agriculturalcolleges on the other. It i? expected that the Institute will be in full working orderbv the spring of 1921. In the meantime the buildings andgardens are being utiHsed as a training centre for ex-Servicemen in horticulture and poultr^^-keeping. Inxreasing interest is being taken by farmers and commercialfrui
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