CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BOARD.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10450, 14 September 1899, Page 3

CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BOARD.

An ordinary monthly meeting of the Canterbury Cof.ege Board "was to'have been held at the College, Lincoln, on Tuesday, but there was not a quorum present, and the s members in attendance, the Hon. E. C. J. Stevens (ahainnanj.and Messrs J. Ronnie and H .F. Gray, therefore eat as the Executive and transacted some routine business. The Union SteatasJhdp Company wrote that i-hey could not see their way "to make concessions in fares to students attending the College. .. The Chairman reported that he had received a letter from Mr H. Oventon, stating that be iad arranged wifch a London firm for the engraving of the Board's.seal at less than the estimated cost-, wnd that he and Mr W. Boag had ordered from Messrs J. end H. McLaren, of Leeds, an eight-horse-power traction engine, of (the latest make, and a combine, the total cost of which would be a little under £900 delivered at Lincoln. The action of the chairman in sending Home a draft for the purchase of <bhe bhreshing plant was approved. ' It was decided to dispose of *he obsolete machinery and implements on the farm. Accounts to *he amount of £360 5s 7d were passed for payment. •The- Director reported the results of the experiments carried out during the year with different manured on mangels and carrots and various kinds of beet, showing in each case extraordinary results. It was decided_.that the report should be made public. In his monthly report on> the work done an the College and on t!he farm for the month ended August 31st, the Director stated that "The weekly examinations began on August 31st, when tihe second year students were examined in agriculture; the results of this examination aie very satisfactory. Arangements have been made for the other weekly examinations throughout the term and it is expected that by the first week in November all will iave been completed; The library has been thoroughly overhauled, and all the books have been classified, the number at present is 729. A number of books on general literature have been added to the library, subscriptions for th'e same having been obtained solely from staff and students. A considerable number of trees have been cut doVh <to prevent overcrowding, and 700 trees have been planted; these consist of oak, elm, birch, sycamore, ash, macrocarpa, and pinus insignis." The report detailed the chief work on #he farm, and the chief sales -for tihe month. '. .■ ■ ■ It was decided that the date of the meeting of the Board next mouth should be fixed by the chairman.