Dairy Schools in Ireland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 49, 30 January 1885, Page 4

Dairy Schools m Ireland.

There was an interesting; „cer mony.at the, Glasnevin,, Agricultural "School, near l3ublin, on tl]G i-21st Septeniberv '• when the prizes were distributed to the Dairy pupils. Air Thpjnas Oiirrdll/Supeiintendjent of the Model Farm, said the aessjoh" %i dairy instructions ttow'c'oncUide^', was specially gi yen at thereduest of the itoVy al ! D v blih Society. • S.e.ycn r .teen pupils : attended the session. 'Tlie'coiirse of instruction embraced ' lessons on the 'theory and practice df 1 c^airy ..work, butter. , majqng, '■ cheese hiaking, r ; the m^nagein'eh|- |nd ;&&&-* ir\g,of 'daiily catt;le b and th^ rearing , ; of., calls'. T^he CpmmJssioftors ;of •^[^tionai Edit cation .^e^dedj as at . the. previous session th.at plain'«ii)dlfery and house ananageinent should form part of the instruction:*' :It might be well, that ! 'the .Society, should consider how it.could further, „t he:u sefulness- :.of the dairy^scbool m. .the inter-ebts '--of Irish""agviculturej either by a system 1 ' of 'scllalarsh'ips, tenable through examination j, or "by" j 'd'ss'islang'" pu'jpife ' from demote, distl'icts. 7" lie nad eVery 'r^asoii fb.r, . expecting 'that! the 'dai'r^'scHpolwftuld continiifi ' tp Vserye t^e/' purpose for which "it ' was " established. ■-. The. 1 ■country .had; become / jto- /thene'cessity; fqr, instr^qtip^ m : theit" de- ' i . clining. : .industry, , . 3jJenc.fi ts ' . wl)ich' I haj^ ,conferreid':by; dairy, j ■ed^catio^iwe^e isa; "apparent !<jhatthose wlio heretofore, iloolte^ u'pori the matter-with indifference and con-sidered-dairy* schools qiiife urinece^ 1 sary, were now "sending" their daughters for instruction." ■'■ ' '- :{ ; >>•■!-',