AGRICULTURE AND DAIRY EDUCATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 6

AGRICULTURE AND DAIRY EDUCATION.

The British Government, writes the London correspondent of the Ofago Witness, ha\e promised to devote £5,000 to subsidies to agricultural and dairy schools which are or may be in existence during the cui-rent year. This is only a temoorary grant. It was expected that the Government would adopt a regular scheme of assistance to such education, but they are waiting till ths Department of Agriculture has been established, and that will probably not be till the latter part of the session, if even then. Something ha 3 been done as a temporary expedient. Mr James Long, Professor of Dairying at Cirencesfcer Agricultural College, has contributed to the " Transactions of the Highland Agricultoi-al Society" a long article showing what is done by the State in European countries, and in the United States and Canada, to instruct farmers in the science and practice of dairying. He finds that more or less State aid is given in 13 countries — France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Spain ; and he contends that British dairy fanners .will be more and more beaten in their own markets if we do not keep abreast with foreign countries in respect of this branch of tech meal education.