SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 37, 3 January 1879, Page 2

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

"We notice from tUe report of the Education Department in Victajg* that the Govormont in that £t4any have set apart laud for j».<£arm or college of agriculture, $w locality being in the ttuliiugoic Forest, somo few miles froni^aUarat. The estate thus set #part comprises lands of various idhds and qualities. Part of it is lightly timbered pastoral land, jpavt is more or less adapted for agri- . culture, and part is, well suited for: vineyards and orchards. As yet the : „ estate has not been put to the use for : which it is intended — that of training young men to become good farmers-^. . but we gather that it will no*, be long; before all arrangements will be com. JQg pleted. The design is to give six scholarships every year to students who have completed their second year's course at a high school, and that those scholarships shall entitle the. persons gaining them to two years' training on tho agri ulcurai farm, and to an exhibition afterwards of £50 for a year's course at the University. By thoge jaieans, it is expected, the pupils will be gaining insight into the most approved , methods of modern agriculture ; they would see machinery in constant use „ which they could not see or handle' at their homes, and they would be practised in overy kind of farm work ; from bush-clearing to vine culture. They would, besides, enlarge their school botany by studying the experimental portion* of the ground, and"' ' . ■'; would be taught the first principles ';' of breeding by a trained : ;^bm». : - """' The idea is an excellent ; 4»e and if properly carried ojs cafinot fail to have a most important iufluence on the futujje jpf »be oolony.— U. B. Herald,