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1878 The Chemistry of the Farm by Robert Warington (1838-1907) was the mostsuccessful of the series Morton’s Handbooks of the Farm. Other subjects were :Livestock, Crops, Soil, Plant Life, The Dairy, Animal Life, Labour andEquipment. The original author of The Chemistry was to have been John BenetLawes (see 1843) but the work was handed over to his assistant, Warington, whowent on to become Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy at Oxford in 1895.1880 Downton Agricultural College, near Salisbury, WiltshireBriefly called the Wiltshire and Hampshire Agricultural College, this was privatecollege opened by former Royal Agricultural College lecturer, Professor JohnWrightson (1840-1916) at Charford Manor, where he also lived and brought uphis 11 children. He took a small group of key Cirencester lecturers with him,including William Fream (see 1892).The College enjoyed something of the standing of the Royal Agricultural College(as compared to the county colleges) and, along with Cirencester and Aspatria(see 1874), held exemption from the Institution of Surveyors’ land agencyexaminations. The college held a noteworthy flock of Hampshire Down sheep.Wrightson had been ‘best student’ at Cirencester in 1863 and was, for 12 years, aprofessor of agriculture at the college. He further developed his ideas after a tourof Europe undertaken when he was the RASE’s representative at the ViennaInternational Exposition 1873, and was probably the first to introduce silage toBritain (or sour hay, as he termed it).Wrightson held strongly that agricultural education required the practicalalongside the scientific, making full use of the 535 acres at Charford, observing,with a slight to certain establishments, that : ‘a sufficient farm is essential to aninstitution which pretends to teach farming.’1906 Downton closed as Professor Wrightson drew to retirement age andprivate colleges were less attractive with the development publiclyfunded agricultural education.Wrightson continued to take three or four farm pupils each year, and wroteprolifically, including the much used Agriculture, theoretical and practical : ATextbook of Mixed Farming for Large and Small Farmers and for AgriculturalStudents, co-authored with John Newsham (1873-?) in 1915. On his death, thethen principal of the Royal Agricultural College, J R Ainsworth-Davis, noted thathe ‘… would always occupy an honoured place in the history of Britishagriculture, especially as regards the educational developments.’c1881Sussex Association for the Improvement of AgricultureThis body was largely an experimental station run by Professor Thomas Jamieson(see 1875) on the land lent for the purpose by Major Warden Sergison (1835-1888) of Cuckfield Park, Sussex.c1891Operations ceased on this site.38
1882 British Dairy Institute, near Aylesbury, BuckinghamshireThe Institute was established by the British Dairy Farmers’ Association to traininstructors for the increasing number of travelling and fixed dairy.1896 It moved to University College, Reading (see 1893).1884 Report on agricultural education in North Germany, France, Denmark,Belgium, Holland, and the United Kingdom by Henry Jenkins (1840-1886). 2ndReport of the Royal Commission on Technical Instruction.1884 University College of North Wales, BangorDegrees in agriculture were introduced, initially awarded by the University ofLondon.c1890A Department of Agriculture was established.1893 Bangor became a founding member of the federal University of Wales(along with what are now the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff).1939 The Soil Survey of England and Wales was formally established.1947 The Soil Survey transferred to Rothamsted.1953 The ARC Unit of Embryology was established to support the work ofProfessor F W Rogers Brambell (1901-1970). The unit was disbandedon his retirement in 1968.1960 Treborth Botanic Garden was acquired.2009 Re-named Bangor University, independent of the confederate Universityof Wales structure.1886 Tamworth Agricultural College and Training Farm, StaffordshireTamworth was a private college established by the Sillito brothers at AlvecotePriory. It ceased operations in 1914.1887 Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical CollegeThe Agricultural Department was established, which ultimately led to theScottish Agricultural College.1899 Merged with the Scottish Dairy Institute to form the West of ScotlandAgricultural College with premises in Glasgow.1904 The Dairy School for Scotland, Kilmarnock opened as a successor to theScottish Dairy Institute.1928 The use of the Auchincruive estate in Ayr was presented to the Secretaryof State for Scotland by John Hannah of Girvan Mains (see also theHannah Dairy Research Institute, 1928).39
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Page 5: ContentsIntroduction 7A Chronology
Page 8 and 9: key government reports which have b
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Page 12 and 13: 1739 Kilsyth, LanarkshireA half acr
Page 14 and 15: 1965 The major annual agricultural
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Page 20 and 21: 1846 Taken over by the Farmer’s M
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Page 26 and 27: 1912 Paper by J C Newsham, Basing,
Page 28 and 29: 1874 The Agricultural Gazette start
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Page 32 and 33: 1868 Agricultural and Horticultural
Page 34 and 35: 1919 The Welsh Plant Breeding Stati
Page 36 and 37: 1875 Aberdeenshire Agricultural Ass
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Page 42 and 43: 1889 Horticultural College, Swanley
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Page 54 and 55: 1898 University of London1898 The S
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1949 Gleadthorpe Poultry Experiment
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1950 The ArchersThe radio programme
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1955 Ministry of Agriculture, Fishe
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1961 Wolverhampton Technical Teache
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1973 Report on Agricultural Educati
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1889 Abbotsholme School, Uttoxeter1
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1981 Biomathematics and Statistics
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1921 Corn Production Acts (Repeal)
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1930 Macaulay Institute for Soil Re
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2011 The Future of Food and Farming
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1915 Women's Institute1903 Workers
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