Canterbury Agricultural College.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 March 1901, Page 3

Canterbury Agricultural College.

The following report on the various stibj.'ias at the above institution, which are very inter-sting, showing the usefulness of science, as applied to farming : AGHICULTtTRE. George U'T.ute, Kstp, farmer and hohlit' of the diploma. Agricultural College, Lincoln, reports: " .[ have pleasure i:i reporting on the examinations in Agriculture hold by ,U). Tlij pipers on ihe Leeturu work were very good, and the general knowledge of the whole class was veiy good Willi the exception of the three lowest stude.its.

Practical work. —In company with the students, I visited all fields in whie'n cultivation had boon carried out during thd year, and questioned each one thoroughly as to tli3 work done in each, the kinds of crops grown, the nature of all experiments, the manures and quantities sown, the dates when sown, etc., etc.

"The majority of the students were able to give satisfactory answers to all questions asked and displayed a good general knowledge of all farm work." CHKJirSTRV. W. G. Evans, Esq., M.A., Ph.D., reports: " Three examination papers were set, viz., on General, Agricultural and Practical Chemistry, respectively. Tha answer papers received vary greatly, some (e.g., Nos. 12, 11. 1 and 8) being really good, while others are very bad. On the whole, the General Chemistry is weak. The Agricultural Chemistry is better, but the answers in that part of the work show a marked tendency on the part of the students to learn tneir notes by heart and quofe them indiscriminately. The practical work is, with few exceptions, quite satisfactory." NATURAL SCIENCE. F. W. Hutton, Esq., F.R.S., reports : " I have the honour to report that, according to your instructions, I have examined the students of the Canterbury Agricultural College in Natural Science. I set papers in Botany, in Entomology and in Geology and Meteorology ; also, 1 held an examination in Practical Botany. " The average obtained by the whole class in the three papers sen was 39 per cent , the marks obtained by different individuals ranging from 95 per cent, to 1 per cent. This shows a very mixed class. " The results of tha practical examination gave ,the much higher average of 60 per cent., the marks gained by each student ranging from 92 for cent, to 25 per cent,'